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Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport /bin/sh-ism fix

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 29, 2007, 23:06 UTC
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Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> writes:
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> Bryan Wu reported
> /usr/local/bin/git-quiltimport: 114: Syntax error: Missing '))'
>
> Most bourne-ish shells I have here accept
>  x=$((echo x)|cat)
> but all bourne-ish shells I have here accept
>  x=$( (echo x)|cat)
> because $(( might mean arithmetic expansion.
Well spotted, thanks.
Sheesh, this is even warned in POSIX sh manpage.
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