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[PATCH] shell portability: Use sed instead of non-portable variable expansion

From
NANaohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Date
Sep 5, 2011, 05:11 UTC
Message-ID
<8762l73758.fsf@elisp.net>

Variable expansions like "${foo#bar}" or "${foo%bar}" doesn't work on shells like FreeBSD sh and they made the test to fail. This patch replace such variable expansions with sed.

Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
---

Testing on FreeBSD failed because of this "bash-ism". After applying this patch, I've verified the test to pass on FreeBSD. (and it worked well also with GNU sed)

 t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh b/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh
index 0ad7ce0..c8237ef 100755
--- a/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh
+++ b/t/t5560-http-backend-noserver.sh
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ test_have_prereq MINGW && export GREP_OPTIONS=-U
 
 run_backend() {
 	echo "$2" |
-	QUERY_STRING="${1#*\?}" \
-	PATH_TRANSLATED="$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/${1%%\?*}" \
+	QUERY_STRING=$(echo "$1"|sed -e 's/^[^?]*?\(.*\)$/\1/') \
+	PATH_TRANSLATED="$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/$(echo "$1"|sed -e 's/^\([^?]*\)?.*$/\1/')" \
 	git http-backend >act.out 2>act.err
 }
 
-- 
1.7.6
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