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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2012 13:14:54 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        "sbruno@freebsd.org" <sbruno@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bash 4.2 patchlevel 28
Message-ID:  <1337890494.2709.18.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1337890075.2709.16.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com>
References:  <1337890075.2709.16.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 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
> 
> sean

At least that was easy.  It's patch level 12.  Sequential sort pays
dividends today.

Sean




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