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Re: [Help-bash] Seemingly malformed but sane looking Bashism
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Seemingly malformed but sane looking Bashism |
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Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:40:11 -0400 |
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On 6/2/15 7:30 PM, Rhys Ulerich wrote:
> Bash says...
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> $ echo ${foo:-$(echo a{b,c})}
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 4.3.30(1)-release
That's a bug, and one that has been around for a very long time (I stopped
looking when I hit bash-2.05b). I will fix it for the next release.
Chet
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