From: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:17:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: avoid full path to store test results
Message-ID: <CA+EOSBmTjwmf+dO-dgU+rGQaVEKDZw7u9ujrh5jYZkPM2zisOA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121030070152.GA13324@elie.Belkin>

Thanks. I know that posix support these usages, but exists some
traditional shell that not support it. These are described in the
autoconf manual, last time i have checked. As the construct ; export
var = x should be portable, but it is not. If this is important these
days i don't know.


Best

2012/10/30, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> Elia Pinto wrote:
>
>> The shell word splitting done in base is a bashism, iow not portable.
>
> No, ${varname##glob} is in POSIX and we already use it here and there.
> See Documentation/CodingGuidelines:
>
>    - We use ${parameter#word} and its [#%] siblings, and their
>      doubled "longest matching" form.
>
> Thanks for looking the patch over.
> Jonathan
>

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