From: Uwe Kleine-König Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:21:40 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed non portable use of expr, and incorrect use of test -eq for string comparison. Message-ID: <20070822122140.GB11926@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> In-Reply-To: <11877841633473-git-send-email-david@olrik.dk> Hello, David Jack Olrik wrote: > - if test "`expr index $httpd_only /`" -eq '1' || \ > + if test "`echo $httpd_only | cut -c 1`" = '/' || \ > which $httpd_only >/dev/null I wonder why not use: if expr "z$httpd_only" : "z/" >/dev/null Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König exit vi, lesson II: : w q ! NB: write the current file