From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:01:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: avoid full path to store test results
Message-ID: <20121030070152.GA13324@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CA+EOSB=Rr8czjVJfA+F6DmHjDUBy0QQ-wd4t-3Uwb1Ksoadr0Q@mail.gmail.com>

Elia Pinto wrote:

> The shell word splitting done in base is a bashism, iow not portable.

No, ${varname##glob} is in POSIX and we already use it here and there.
See Documentation/CodingGuidelines:

   - We use ${parameter#word} and its [#%] siblings, and their
     doubled "longest matching" form.

Thanks for looking the patch over.
Jonathan