Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Even in the latest bash, 4.0.33, $() parsing is still broken: > > $ bash -c 'echo $(echo \|)' > bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)' > bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > And yes, this is bash built with GNU bison, not Berkeley yacc.
The rest of the information from bashbug would help, since I can't reproduce it: local(1)$ ./bash local(2)$ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.0.33(6)-release local(2)$ ./bash --version GNU bash, version 4.0.33(6)-release (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. local(2)$ ./bash -c 'echo $(echo \|)' | local(2)$ ./bash ./x3 | local(2)$ cat x3 ./bash -c 'echo $(echo \|)' local(2)$ ./bash ./x3a | local(2)$ cat x3a echo $(echo \|) -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
