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

[Dawid Węgliński]

On Sunday 22 of February 2009 00:27:10 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
> -mike

FYI. Not only find's semicolons are affected. It also happens in case ;; 
construction.

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Cheers,
Dawid Węgliński