On 1/16/12 2:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Someone in IRC was doing an overly complex command invovling grep "^.{1,8}"
> inside a command substitution, and we believe he stumbled upon a bash bug.
> I've simplified it down to this:
>
> $ echo "$(echo "a{1,8}")"
> a1 a8
>
> The curly braces here should not be treated as a brace expansion, since
> they're obviously inside a quoted argument.
The curly braces shouldn't be handled by the "outer" shell anyway, since
they're part of a command substitution. (The quotes inside the command
substitution should not be misinterpreted as terminating the outer quoted
string.) This was already reported and fixed for the next bash releaes.
Chet
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