On 6/1/11 9:31 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Report follows.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/791263
>
> This is on 10.04 and also with upstream's pure bash 4.2 with no Debian
> or Ubuntu patches.
>
> $ echo bar >foo
> $ >bar
> $ ls `cat foo`
> bar
> $ wc !$
> wc `cat foo`
> 0 0 0 bar
> $ ls $(cat foo)
> bar
> $ wc !$
> wc )
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> $ ls $(<foo)
> bar
> $ wc !$
> wc )
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> $
>
> I'd expect !$ to consider the last word to be $(...) just as it is happy
> with `...`. zsh does.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed for the next version of bash.
In addition to $(...), process substitution and extended globbing patterns
will work as well.
Chet
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