From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:06:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport /bin/sh-ism fix
Message-ID: <7vr6r71wh0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070329213820.GY24561@craic.sysops.org>

Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> writes:

> 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.