> Bash Version: 4.1
> Patch Level: 5
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> The following script used to work in bash 3.2 but does not work with
> bash 4.x (I tried 4.0, 4.1.5, and 4.1.7)
>
> ------
> #!/bin/bash
>
> a=$(/bin/cat << EOF | wc -l
> a
> b
> EOF
> )
> -----
>
> /tmp/bug.sh: line 3: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
> /tmp/bug.sh: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
