From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: fix dash complaining about "Missing '))'" Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:22:12 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <46A66F39.20507@lsrfire.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 00:22:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDSm2-0003cQ-CU for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:22:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755829AbXGXWWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:22:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755238AbXGXWWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:22:31 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59963 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752671AbXGXWWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:22:31 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2007 22:22:29 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 25 Jul 2007 00:22:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18XwdNSiL8XvWwSUCekoa8NuIHFrAT+NjijYn3jyF o3jtraMFVP15s/ X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46A66F39.20507@lsrfire.ath.cx> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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