Hello Christian, Hi all, confirmed. this is due to the fact, that the second case does not get tflags |= LEX_INCASE; in parse_comsub which returns prematurely. when I give up on trying to fix that I will let you know :)
cheers, pg On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Christian Franke < christian.fra...@t-online.de> wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i686 > OS: cygwin > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' > -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > -DRECYCLES_PIDS -I. -I/usr/src/bash-4.3.42-4.i686/src/bash-4.3 > -I/usr/src/bash-4.3.42-4.i686/src/bash-4.3/include > -I/usr/src/bash-4.3.42-4.i686/src/bash-4.3/lib -DWORDEXP_OPTION -ggdb -O2 > -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration > -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/src/bash-4.3.42-4.i686/build=/usr/src/debug/bash-4.3.42-4 > -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/src/bash-4.3.42-4.i686/src/bash-4.3=/usr/src/debug/bash-4.3.42-4 > uname output: CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW Alien2 2.4.1(0.293/5/3) 2016-01-24 11:24 > i686 Cygwin > Machine Type: i686-pc-cygwin > > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 42 > Release Status: release > > Description: > If consecutive case statements are inside of $(...), the parser > misinterprets first ')' from second case statement as the end of command > substitution. > > The possibly related patch bash43-042 is already included in this version. > > > Repeat-By: > > $ cat bug.sh > x=$( > case 1 in > 1) echo 1 > esac > case 2 in > 2) echo 2 > esac > ) > echo "$x" > > > $ bash -xv bug.sh > x=$( > case 1 in > 1) echo 1 > esac > case 2 in > 2) echo 2 > bug.sh: command substitution: line 13: syntax error: unexpected end of file > bug.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `esac' > bug.sh: line 7: ` esac' > > > $ dash bug.sh > 1 > 2 > > > Workarounds: > - append semicolon behind first 'esac', or > - insert any command line between the case statements, or > - use `...` instead of $(...) > > > -- > Christian Franke > > >