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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:38:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbfc82860701290438y4e00cc05s5f8c8acdc8022768@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zm82dpql.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On 1/29/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Simon" == Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> writes:
>
> Simon> +                        destname="refs/$branch_top/${name#refs/heads/}" ;;
>
> I don't think this is portable shell.  At least Perl is the same everywhere.
> Ignore me if this is a shell syntax on something other than bash.

According to "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6" [1]:

${parameter#word}
    Remove Smallest Prefix Pattern. The word shall be expanded to
produce a pattern. The parameter expansion shall then result in
parameter, with the smallest portion of the prefix matched by the
pattern deleted.

We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?

  nikolai

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_02

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-29 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29  8:09 [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-29  8:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-29  9:18   ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-29  9:28     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-29 11:41 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-01-29 12:38   ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2007-01-29 12:53     ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-01-29 13:17       ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-01-29 13:21         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-01-30 10:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-29 12:43   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-29 12:54     ` Randal L. Schwartz

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