On 1/3/24 8:41 AM, Oğuz wrote:
See:
$ ${ case } in }) echo uname; esac }
Linux
$ ${ case }x in }x) echo uname; esac }
bash: command substitution: line 25: syntax error near unexpected token `x'
bash: command substitution: line 25: ` }x)'
$ ${ case }x in \}x) echo uname; esac }
Linux
$
I don't think this should be a syntax error because the closing brace
is not in a place it can terminate the command substitution.
I agree. It looks like a problem with reconsituting the text of the command
substitution from the parse tree. I'll fix it for the next devel branch
push.
Chet
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