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Re: Random parser error of $() when there is a case inside

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From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
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Subject Re: Random parser error of $() when there is a case inside
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On 12/4/15 1:25 PM, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 53
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> While writing a script, I faced a random parser error with code like
> 
> A=$(
> ...
> case b in
> c)
> ...
> esac 
> ...
> )
> 
> Minor changes like renaming a variable skips the problem. It seems that the
> parser gets confused in some cases.

This was fixed back in bash-4.3.

Chet
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