Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 22, 2007, 00:05 UTC
Message-ID: <86abrfy377.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x6zinjf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I do not doubt that "while case $# in 0) break ;; esac" does not
> work for your shell.  But I think the above comment is grossly
> misleading.

Personally, I find this idiom distasteful.

I'd do either while case $# in 0) false ;; *) true esac

or, more likely while : do case $# in 0) break;; esac

But doing a break inside of the while _condition_ rather than the body just feels wrong to me.

-- 
David Kastrup

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