Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 2, 2007, 21:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vodhptyk3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl71tyyq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

You might find this thread amusing.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/7116/focus=7136

Historically, I have even avoided accepting ${var#word}, ${var%word}, and arithmetic expansions.

I would still reject shell arrays.

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