bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

[Chuck Robey]

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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "Daniel Bye" <danielby at slightlystrange.org> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Which happened a week ago.
> 

I've had stuff like this happen to me, once in a while.  it's NEVER a fact of
bash really suddenly losing something so major.  What you have to is to look at
previous parts of your code, for things like unclosed parens, unclosed quotes,
things like that.  The errors aren't overly helpful, but if you look at previous
lines, you'll find it there, believe me.
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