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Re: contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline: do not require /bin/bash to run

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Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date
Mar 30, 2011, 18:53 UTC
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You can ignore this, I hadn't found the new thread yet....
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 13:43 -0400, Drew Northup wrote:
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> On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 10:08 +0300, Maxin john wrote:
> > contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline: do not require /bin/bash to run
> > 
> > Modified the patch by incorporating the suggestions from Ángel
> > González <ingenit@zoho.com> and Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin@maxinbjohn.info>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
> > b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
> > index cc518f3..1d109a5 100755
> > --- a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
> > +++ b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
> > @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> > -#!/bin/bash
> > +#!/bin/sh
> >  # Copyright 2008 Lukas Sandström <luksan@gmail.com>
> >  #
> >  # AppendPatch - A script to be used together with ExternalEditor
> > -# for Mozilla Thunderbird to properly include pathes inline i e-mails.
> > +# for Mozilla Thunderbird to properly include patches inline in e-mails.
> > 
> >  # ExternalEditor can be downloaded at http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2
> > 
> > @@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ else
> >         cd > /dev/null
> >  fi
> > 
> > -PATCH=$(zenity --file-selection)
> > +#check whether zenity is present
> > +if ! type zenity >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> > +       exit 1
> > +fi
> > +
> > +PATCH=`zenity --file-selection`
> 
> I could be missing something, but I thought we were trying to
> standardize to the $(....) syntax..., no? I didn't think that was a
> bash-ism.
> 
> >  if [ "$?" != "0" ] ; then
> >         #zenity --error --text "No patchfile given."
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-Drew Northup
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  1. Maxin johnMar 29, 2011
  2. Drew NorthupMar 30, 2011
  3. Drew NorthupMar 30, 2011

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