Re: [gentoo-amd64] Python-updater line 415 error

[Lance Lassetter]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 02:16 -0400, Frank Peters wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:07:43 -0500
> Lance Lassetter <lancelassetter@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 01:59 -0400, Frank Peters wrote:
> > > cd /etc && FOO="$(cat < $(ls -a /etc | grep mtab))" && echo $FOO
> >
> > Frank,
> >
> > The 1st didn't, the second did:
> >
> > The 1st:
> >
> > # cd /etc && FOO="$(cat < <(ls -a /etc | grep mtab))" && echo $FOO
> > dmtab mtab
> >
> >
> > The 2nd:
> >
> > # cd /etc && FOO="$(cat < $(ls -a /etc | grep mtab))" && echo $FOO
> > -su: $(ls -a /etc | grep mtab): ambiguous redirect
> >
>
> Thanks.  There is something funny going on, because the first produces
> an error on my system while the second does not.  The first form of the
> command is what has been in python-updater.
>
> What version of bash do you have?  Just do:
>
> bash --version
>
> It has to be a bash issue.
>
> Frank Peters
>
>

# bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
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