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

[Ryan Hill]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:27:10 -0500
Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> 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
>

is this a bug or broken on purpose?

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