bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

[Jason Hellenthal]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 04:58:48PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
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> Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 07:44:39AM +0200, Trond Endrest?l wrote:
> >> On Thu, 24 May 2012 13:07-0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2
> >> > patchlevel 10 and 28.  I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing
> >that
> >> > over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA.  I'm
> >bisecting to
> >> > find out what is going on.
> >> > 
> >> > test:
> >> > VARIABLE="$(uname)"
> >> > bash: command substitution: line 3: syntax error near unexpected
> >token
> >> > `)'
> >> > bash: command substitution: line 3: `uname)"'
> >> > 
> >> > Odd, but his works at patchlevel 10
> >> 
> >> I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour on one of my systems:
> >> 
> >> trond at enterprise:~>bash --version
> >> GNU bash, version 4.2.28(0)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0)
> >> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> >> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> >> 
> >> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
> >> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> >> trond at enterprise:~>my_var="$(uname)"
> >> trond at enterprise:~>echo $my_var
> >> FreeBSD
> >> trond at enterprise:~>
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure what's going on in your case.
> >> 
> >
> >Same here but on 8.3-STABLE i386
> 
> Common misconception- it's actually 8-STABLE; no minor version.
> 

Common mistake not noting 8-STABLE with a revision number attached to
it.

Its either 8-STABLE @rNNNNNN - This could be anything from 8.0 -> now();

- or -

8.3-STABLE which designates that it is the stable branch @ or after 8.3-RELEASE


I don't know why everyone needs to bikeshed this thing. But do what you
must and add 's/.3//' to any conversation that mentions it.

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