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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: fix dash complaining about "Missing '))'"
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:22:12 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707242321470.14781@racer.site> (raw)
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

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-24 21:29 [PATCH] filter-branch: fix dash complaining about "Missing '))'" René Scharfe
2007-07-24 22:22 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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