Hi, I've just reported what I think to be a bug on Ubuntu but it's present in pure bash 4.2 built from source too so I'm reporting it here. I'm not subscribed to the list so please CC me. I take it there's no public bug-tracker for bash and it's all done privately based on this list?
If any Ubuntu bashers have the odd spare minute then https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bugs could do with a bit of love and attention. I've just marked invalid or fixed a few of the bugs on there but there's plenty left. Cheers, Ralph. Report follows. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/791263 This is on 10.04 and also with upstream's pure bash 4.2 with no Debian or Ubuntu patches. $ echo bar >foo $ >bar $ ls `cat foo` bar $ wc !$ wc `cat foo` 0 0 0 bar $ ls $(cat foo) bar $ wc !$ wc ) -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)' $ ls $(<foo) bar $ wc !$ wc ) -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)' $ I'd expect !$ to consider the last word to be $(...) just as it is happy with `...`. zsh does.
