From: Robert Schiele Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:45:15 GMT Subject: Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes? Message-ID: <20070802234515.GW29424@schiele.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <85k5sdy0lk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:32:07AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Robert Schiele 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 -- Robert Schiele Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@gmail.com "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."