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From: Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff•org>
To: solsTiCe d'Hiver <solstice.dhiver@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bash-completion] syntax error near unexpected token '<' on line 123 in bash_completion.d/git
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:01:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4C982C.20904@pileofstuff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280056320.7883.9.camel@soho.example.org>

"< <()" is indeed correct here: the first "<" is a normal shell
redirect, and the "<()" creates a sub-shell to read input from.  This
was the least messy way I could find to read variables into a shell.  "<
$()" won't do the job, and a normal pipe won't either:

$ FOO=parent ; echo child | { read ; FOO="$REPLY" ; } ; echo $FOO
parent
$ FOO=parent ; { read ; FOO="$REPLY" ; } < $( echo child ) ; echo $FOO
bash: child: No such file or directory
parent
$ FOO=parent ; { read ; FOO="$REPLY" ; } < <( echo child ) ; echo $FOO
child


Is "syntax error near unexpected token '<' on line 123" the complete
text of the error message you get?  bash 4.1.5 always prepends "bash: "
to such errors for me:

$ while false ; do echo foo ; done < ;
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'

If this is the complete error text, then I suspect you may have somehow
got bash completion in a non-bash shell.  Could you add this on line 98
and let me know what it says:

echo $BASH_VERSION $BASHOPTS

If it really is bash, $BASHOPTS might help me to replicate this problem
(or I might have to read the man page some more).

	- Andrew

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-25 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-25 11:12 [bash-completion] syntax error near unexpected token '<' on line 123 in bash_completion.d/git solsTiCe d'Hiver
2010-07-25 11:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-25 20:01 ` Andrew Sayers [this message]
2010-07-25 22:19   ` solsTiCe d'Hiver
2010-07-26 21:39     ` Andrew Sayers
2010-07-27  9:24       ` solsTiCe d'Hiver
2010-07-27 10:43       ` solsTiCe d'Hiver

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