Re: Inner Command Groups fail in Bash 5.2

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/31/23 1:21 PM, Dima Korobskiy wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 15
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>          One of my Bash scripts started to fail all of a sudden and I was 
> able to narrow down this problem to Bash upgrade itself (via Homebrew on a 
> Mac): from 5.1.16 to 5.2.15.
> It looks to me pretty serious: a lot of scripts might be potentially affected.

Thanks for the report. It's an easy fix:


*** ../bash-20230818/parse.y    Wed Aug 23 09:56:19 2023
--- parse.y     Fri Sep  1 09:29:27 2023
***************
*** 3224,3227 ****
--- 3224,3229 ----
      case TIMEOPT:     /* time -p time pipeline */
      case TIMEIGN:     /* time -p -- ... */
+     case DOLPAREN:
+     case DOLBRACE:
        return 1;
      default:

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