Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?

Robert Schiele [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:32:07AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

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Robert Schiele [off-list ref] writes:

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Well, I have now a patch ready for submission that would replace all
occurences of ${PARAMETER#WORD}, ${PARAMETER%WORD}, and $((
EXPRESSION )).  But if you say that you won't accept replacement of
$( ... ) then this is not worth the effort since this one isn't
accepted as well.

I absolutely can't understand your claim that most things work for
you, then.  Are you _really_, _really_ sure you are talking about
/bin/sh here?

I started wondering myself and it turned out that we just didn't
look in the right place.  Actually we _have_ an infrastructure in
place to replace the shell.  (SHELL_PATH in the Makefile) In that
case I would not consider this an issue and you might go on with the
cleanup from my point of view.

I was starting to doubt my sanity here.  Sorry that this thread
resulted in wasted work for you.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:52:32AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

I was starting to doubt my sanity here.  Sorry that this thread
resulted in wasted work for you.

That's ok.  I mean I didn't spot the SHELL_PATH thing in the first place
although I already had seen that one before (what I remember now).

At least in that case I don't have to worry any longer since I always can put
some compliant shell at some random place and use that one.

But at least you have learned now that not everything in the real world looks
like as it is written in some standard books. ;-)

Robert

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