,--- You/Jerry (Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:30:15 -0400) ----* | I am having the exact same problem. Several of my scripts are now | failing. I have modified a few with the older "`" tic method to make | them work; however, I feel that the easiest thing would be to simply | revert to Bash-3. | | Was this some sort of 'improvement' by the Bash developers, or is it | an un-squashed bug?
Breaking the $(command) substitution would be catastrophic and Bash 4.0 documentation claims support for it: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html Bash Reference Manual This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the Bash shell (version 4.0, 29 December 2008). This is Edition 4.0, last updated 29 December 2008, of The GNU Bash Reference Manual, for Bash, Version 4.0. 3.5.4 Command Substitution Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the command itself. Command substitution occurs when a command is enclosed as follows: $(command) or `command` Bash performs the expansion by executing command and replacing the command substitution with the standard output of the command, with any trailing newlines deleted. Embedded newlines are not deleted, but they may be removed during word splitting. The command substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent but faster $(< file). -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net -- /* * Every time I lose weight, it finds me again! */ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"