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

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:55:37 -0500
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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

thanks for the heads up.

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