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Re: Broken parse on `'${'`
- From: Chet Ramey <chet dot ramey at case dot edu>
- To: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- Cc: bug-bash at gnu dot org, cygwin at cygwin dot com, chet at case dot edu
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:04:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: Broken parse on `'${'`
- References: <42CDE346.30908@byu.net> <42D0176C.4080306@case.edu> <42D259D0.9010708@byu.net>
- Reply-to: chet dot ramey at case dot edu
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Chet Ramey on 7/9/2005 12:29 PM:
>
>>>>Repeat-By:
>>>>zsh$ echo `echo '${'`
>>>>${
>>>>zsh$ bash
>>>>bash$ echo `echo '${'`
>>>>
>>>># Hmm - I was just incorrectly presented PS2, asking to try to continue
>>>>what bash thought was an incomplete ${ variable substitution
>>>>
>>>>Fix:
>>>> unknown
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for the report. This has been fixed.
>
>
> Does this fix backport easily to 3.0, or will I have to wait for 3.1 to be
> released? Sometimes it is rather a shame that bash provides no anonymous
> read-only access to a version control system, because it means pending
> fixes are only made public when you are ready to make a new release.
The fix will be in 3.1. I will see what I can do about sending out a
patch.
Chet
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