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Re: [PATCH] t7800: avoid arithmetic expansion notation

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 14, 2011, 18:00 UTC
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
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> ba959de (git-difftool: allow skipping file by typing 'n' at prompt, 2011-10-08)
> introduced shell code like
>
> $((foo; bar) | baz)
>
> which some shells (e.g. bash, dash) interpret as an unfinished arithmetic
> evaluation $(( expr )).

Ahh, thanks, I should have caught this. I recall I rewrote a similar one to $( (command; command) | command ) more than once before.

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