Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells)

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 21 February 2009 18:38:55 Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:27:10 -0500 Mike Frysinger 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
>
> is this a bug or broken on purpose?

i say it's a bug, but i'm not the bash maintainer

i imagine it's fall out from attempts to fix support for case statements in 
subshells
-mike

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