Re: [gentoo-amd64] Python-updater line 415 error

[Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:07:43 -0500
Lance Lassetter <lancelassetter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 01:59 -0400, Frank Peters wrote:
> > cd /etc && FOO="$(cat < $(ls -a /etc | grep mtab))" && echo $FOO
> 
> Frank,
> 
> The 1st didn't, the second did:
> 
> The 1st:
> 
> # cd /etc && FOO="$(cat < <(ls -a /etc | grep mtab))" && echo $FOO
> dmtab mtab
> 
> 
> The 2nd:
> 
> # cd /etc && FOO="$(cat < $(ls -a /etc | grep mtab))" && echo $FOO
> -su: $(ls -a /etc | grep mtab): ambiguous redirect
> 

Thanks.  There is something funny going on, because the first produces
an error on my system while the second does not.  The first form of the
command is what has been in python-updater.

What version of bash do you have?  Just do:

bash --version

It has to be a bash issue.

Frank Peters