Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?

Robert Schiele [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:24:38AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

quoted

The situation is that we currently don't avoid the former.  Robert
said that he had prepared a patch that would do so.

It would make sense to either encourage him to present his patch

Well, if you want to see it, just tell me.  Do you want to have it with or
without the arithmetic replacements I did as well?

From Junio's answer, I gather that indeed this would seem pointless.

$(...) is not going away anytime soon, and I have seen no evidence
that there is a shell in widespread use that supports it, but doesn't
support ${...#...}.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum