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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, tarmigan+git@gmail.com,
	David Barr <davidbarr@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shell portability: Use sed instead of non-portable variable expansion
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:54:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E648031.6050607@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbouzxy7g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 9/5/2011 9:09, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> By the way, t9010 uses ${#parameter} (strlen) which is bashism we forbid,
> and it needs to be rewritten (David CC'ed).

Actually, no. It is perfectly valid POSIX. So we would need this patch.

--- 8< ---
From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: ${#parameter} is POSIX and should be allowed

See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_02.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 Documentation/CodingGuidelines |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index fe1c1e5..df0b620 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
 
    - No shell arrays.
 
-   - No strlen ${#parameter}.
-
    - No pattern replacement ${parameter/pattern/string}.
 
  - We use Arithmetic Expansion $(( ... )).
-- 
1.7.7.rc0.211.g5ac7e

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05  7:54 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
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 [this message]
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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