From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:22:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: fix dash complaining about "Missing '))'"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707242321470.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46A66F39.20507@lsrfire.ath.cx>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Ren? Scharfe wrote:

> 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