From: philippe DOT rua AT ntc DOT nokia DOT com (Philippe Rua)
Subject: bash hangs in $(...)
9 Dec 1996 04:43:44 -0800
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I am using the release-b14 of the GNU-Win32 tools on Win NT 3.51.

'bash' hangs with the following script, the 'dirname' program is also
the one from the distribution:

f1 ()
{
  echo $(f2 $1)
}

f2 ()
{
  echo "$(dirname $1)" # OK
  echo $(f3 $1)        # OK
  x="$(f3 $1)"         # Hangs!
  echo $x
}

f3 ()
{
  echo "$(dirname $1)" # Hangs when called as "x=..." above
}

set -x                 # just to show what happens
f1 /aaa/bb/c

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