Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?
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Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com>
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- Aug 2, 2007, 23:45 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:32:07AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
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> Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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.
Robert
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