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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells)
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:38:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090221173855.404ebed9@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200902211827.10563.vapier@gentoo.org

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:27:10 -0500
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> looks like bash-4.0 has broken semicolon escaping in subshells.  this
> comes up when using find's -exec like we do in a few places in
> eclasses: ls=$(find "$1" -name '*.po' -exec basename {} .po \;); shift
> you can work around the issue in a couple of ways:
>  - quote the semicolon:
> 	.... ';')
>  - use backticks
> 	`find .... \;`
> 
> i'll tweak the eclasses to use quoting for now
> -mike
> 

is this a bug or broken on purpose?

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-21 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-21 23:27 [gentoo-dev] bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells) Mike Frysinger
2009-02-21 23:38 ` Ryan Hill [this message]
2009-02-21 23:55   ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2009-02-22  0:00     ` Mart Raudsepp
2009-02-22  0:29       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-22  0:38         ` Mart Raudsepp
2009-02-22  0:44           ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-22  0:54             ` Mart Raudsepp
2009-02-22  1:28               ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-22  7:40                 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-02-24 15:52             ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2009-02-24 15:56               ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-22  1:02     ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-22 22:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Dawid Węgliński
2009-02-22 22:39   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-22 23:03     ` Dawid Węgliński
2009-02-23  0:00       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-24  4:16       ` Mike Frysinger

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