bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

[Daniel Bye]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All
> of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch
> of error messages, like so
> 
> -bash: command substitution: line 39: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> -bash: command substitution: line 39: `    }")'
> 
> It would see that bash no longer likes the $() command substitution syntax.
> 
> Does that mean that it's defaulting to some sort of posix compatibility mode
> now? 

It's a bug in bash 4. It was discussed here a few days ago. I would
deinstall v.4 and install shells/bash3 until the bug's fixed.

Dan

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