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Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: fix dash complaining about "Missing '))'"

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 24, 2007, 22:22 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707242321470.14781@racer.site>
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<46A66F39.20507@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Hi,
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Ren? Scharfe wrote:
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> On e.g. Ubuntu, dash is used as /bin/sh.  Unlike bash it parses
> commands like
> 
>   a=$((echo stuff) | wc)
> 
> as an arithmetic expression while what we want is a subshell inside
> a command substitution.
Ah, well.  I think I should switch to Ubuntu, to suffer the same...

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. filter-branch: fix dash complaining about "Missing '))'"René Scharfe, Jul 24, 2007
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