On 10/13/23 12:08 PM, Emanuele Torre wrote:
In a PE pattern, if the pattern has a single quoted part that contains $( and does not contain a closing parenthesis, and has \' at the end, bash will try to parse a command substitution and fail.
This is brace expansion. It looks like I'll have to teach it more shell syntax. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/