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Re: Parsing error when "case" in "for" in $()
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Parsing error when "case" in "for" in $() |
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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:30:10 -0600 |
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On 09/11/2012 03:31 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>> Fix:
>>> Probably by fixing the bash parser.
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>> Balance the parentheses in the case statement:
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>> echo $(for x in whatever; do case y in (*) echo 42;; esac; done)
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> Thanks. I didn't know that the opening paren was optional and was needed
> in such a case as a disambiguator. Very nice. And if you really want to
> match something that starts with an open paren, just backslash it.
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> As a style issue, it makes me wonder if I should always use the optional
> open paren as syntactic sugar...
POSIX has always required an optional open paren to case patterns,
thanks to ksh; but it hasn't been portable to all shells until recently
(among others, Solaris /bin/sh will fail if you try it, but then again,
that's not a POSIX shell).
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