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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, tarmigan+git@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shell portability: Use sed instead of non-portable variable expansion
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:03:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E647442.9000005@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762l73758.fsf@elisp.net>

Am 9/5/2011 7:11, schrieb Naohiro Aota:
> 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".

These are not bashism, but features require by POSIX.

I'd rather suspect that the failures are not because FreeBSD sh does not
have ${%} or ${#}, but rather that it interprets the meaning of the
backslash in this case in a way different from other shells.

>  run_backend() {
>  	echo "$2" |
> -	QUERY_STRING="${1#*\?}" \
> -	PATH_TRANSLATED="$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/${1%%\?*}" \

What happens if you write these as

	QUERY_STRING=${1#*\?} \
	PATH_TRANSLATED=$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/${1%%\?*} \

i.e., drop the double-quotes?

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05  5:11 [PATCH] shell portability: Use sed instead of non-portable variable expansion Naohiro Aota
2011-09-05  7:03 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-09-05  7:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-05  7:35     ` Johannes Sixt
2011-09-05  7:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-05  8:16         ` Johannes Sixt
2011-09-05  8:21           ` Johannes Sixt
2011-09-05  7:55   ` Naohiro Aota
2011-09-05  7:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-05  7:54   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-09-05  8:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-05  8:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-06 19:09   ` [PATCH] Makefile: abort on shells that do not support ${parameter%word} expansion Brandon Casey
2011-09-06 19:32     ` Brandon Casey
2011-09-06 20:30       ` Brandon Casey
2011-09-06 20:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-06 20:09       ` Brandon Casey
2011-09-06 20:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-06 20:20       ` Brandon Casey

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