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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:04:05 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet DOT ramey AT case DOT edu>
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To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
CC: bug-bash AT gnu DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, chet AT case DOT edu
Subject: Re: Broken parse on `'${'`
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Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Chet Ramey on 7/9/2005 12:29 PM:
> 
>>>>Repeat-By:
>>>>zsh$ echo `echo '${'`
>>>>${
>>>>zsh$ bash
>>>>bash$ echo `echo '${'`
>>>>
>>>># Hmm - I was just incorrectly presented PS2, asking to try to continue
>>>>what bash thought was an incomplete ${ variable substitution
>>>>
>>>>Fix:
>>>>  unknown
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for the report.  This has been fixed.
> 
> 
> Does this fix backport easily to 3.0, or will I have to wait for 3.1 to be
> released?  Sometimes it is rather a shame that bash provides no anonymous
> read-only access to a version control system, because it means pending
> fixes are only made public when you are ready to make a new release.

The fix will be in 3.1.  I will see what I can do about sending out a
patch.

Chet
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