Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 06:08 UTC
Message-ID: <85hcnhw3oc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070803022828.GY29424@schiele.dyndns.org>

Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:24:38AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> The situation is that we currently don't avoid the former.  Robert
>> said that he had prepared a patch that would do so.
>> 
>> It would make sense to either encourage him to present his patch
>
> Well, if you want to see it, just tell me.  Do you want to have it with or
> without the arithmetic replacements I did as well?

>From Junio's answer, I gather that indeed this would seem pointless.

$(...) is not going away anytime soon, and I have seen no evidence that there is a shell in widespread use that supports it, but doesn't support ${...#...}.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum