Re: Syntax error: Bad substitution

[Ralph Alvy <ralph@ralphalvy.com>]

Bart Oldeman wrote:

> On 10/29/06, Matthew Clarke <clamat@telus.net> wrote:
>> Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:14:55PM -0700, Ralph Alvy may have written:
>>
>> > 84        -install)
>> > 85            INSTALL=1
>> > 86            if [ -n "$2" -a "${2:0:1}" != "-" ]; then
>> > 87              PROPRIETARY=$2
>>
>> If bash is installed as /bin/bash, you can change the first line of the
>> script to
>>
>>         #! /bin/bash
>>
>> to avoid the problem.
> 
> You could also replace line 86 by:
>             if [ -n "$2" -a -n "${2%%-*}" ]; then
> which is portable to Bourne sh AFAIK (and a better solution for dosemu
> itself -- some distributions don't like /bin/bash scripts).

Well, for me anyway, I think it's easier to remember to change the first
line to

        #! /bin/bash

whenever I see this problem arise, which is so rare to begin with (only one
disribution so far, among so many installed).