bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

[Trond Endrestøl]

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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.

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