On Feb 14 2021, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:21:36 +0300
> From: =?UTF-8?B?T8SfdXo=?= <oguzismailuy...@gmail.com>
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> | $ bash -c ': $(case x in x) esac)'
>
> This is a well known bash deficiency. When parsing command substitutions
> it (approximately) simply counts (unquoted) parentheses to find the end.
> Anything with a valid closing ')' but with no opening '(' confuses it.
Bash already handles that properly, when the compound-list is non-empty.
$ bash -c ': $(case x in x) :; esac)'
Andreas.
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