Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:29:45 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax Message-ID: <44tz5m7sau.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20090321142122.GA99623@torus.slightlystrange.org> (Daniel Bye's message of "Sat\, 21 Mar 2009 14\:21\:22 %2B0000") References: <20090321124859.GA27682@anton.digitaltorque.ca> <20090321142122.GA99623@torus.slightlystrange.org>
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"Daniel Bye" <danielby@slightlystrange.org> writes: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All >> of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch >> of error messages, like so >> >> -bash: command substitution: line 39: syntax error near unexpected token `)' >> -bash: command substitution: line 39: ` }")' >> >> It would see that bash no longer likes the $() command substitution syntax. >> >> Does that mean that it's defaulting to some sort of posix compatibility mode >> now? > > It's a bug in bash 4. It was discussed here a few days ago. I would > deinstall v.4 and install shells/bash3 until the bug's fixed. Which happened a week ago. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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