In a PE pattern, if the pattern has a single quoted part that contains
$( and does not contain a closing parenthesis, and has \' at the
end, bash will try to parse a command substitution and fail.
$ echo "${HOME#'$('\'}"
bash: command substitution: line 3: unexpected EOF while looking for
matching `"'
$ echo "${HOME#aaaa'$(aaaa'aaa)aaa\'}"
bash: command substitution: line 5: unexpected EOF while looking for
matching `"'
$ echo "${HOME#aaaa'$(aaaa)'aaaa\'}"
/home/emanuele6
I was able to reprodcue this bug in all versions starting from bash 4.3.
o/
emanuele6