From: David Kastrup Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:08:35 GMT Subject: Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes? Message-ID: <85hcnhw3oc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: <20070803022828.GY29424@schiele.dyndns.org> Robert Schiele writes: > 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 ${...#...}. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum