shells/bash-4.0 port horribly broken

[Johan van Selst]

Jerry wrote:
> Was this some sort of 'improvement' by the Bash developers, or is it
> an un-squashed bug?

It seems that this might actually be a feature.
Quoting the COMPAT document of bash4:

38. Since bash-4.0 now follows Posix rules for finding the closing delimiter
    of a $() command substitution, it will not behave as previous versions
    did, but will catch more syntax and parsing errors before spawning a
    subshell to evaluate the command substitution.


Ciao,
Johan
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