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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 22 February 2009 17:30:09 Dawid Węgliński wrote:
> 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
>
> FYI. Not only find's semicolons are affected. It also happens in case ;;
> construction.

embedded case statements in $(...) subshells have always been broken.  
bash-4.0 is supposed to fix that.  if you have some code that is broken, 
please post it so i can push it upstream.
-mike