case statement and $( ) environment

2010-03-06 Thread Roland Nagtegaal
I'm sorry, but I sent my bug report for the problems with a case statement within a $( ) environmet from a root account. Please reply to rol...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl instead, if needed. best wishes, Roland Nagtegaal

Re: reversal of brace vs process expansion needs compatibility option

2010-03-06 Thread tbagg
Chet Ramey wrote: > On 3/4/10 3:43 AM, Ted Bagg wrote: > > Dear Bash maintainers, this very useful construct worked in 3.2: > > > > diff <(sort {a,b}.lst) > > > > but fails in 4.0, breaking scripts for many, no doubt. Such a > > substantive change (much more harm than good, in my opinion) oug