From: Ralph Alvy <ralvy@warpmail.net>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Syntax error: Bad substitution
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:14:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ei5pvm$isg$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f1de940b0610300308t61ce3861v40c09e30ca41b67f@mail.gmail.com
Cristi Mitrana wrote:
> On 10/29/06, Ralph Alvy <ralph@ralphalvy.com> wrote:
>> Bart Oldeman wrote:
>>
>> > if [ -n "$2" -a -n "${2%%-*}" ]; then
>>
>> I tried your substitution under Kubuntu 6.10. Two comments:
>>
>> 1. There's one more instance where the substitution must be made: line
>> 98.
>>
>> 2. xdosemu loads fine, though there is one error message upon loading:
>>
>> [: 373: 0: unexpected operator
>
> [...]
>
> That is because the new Ubuntu release uses dash instead of bash for
> /bin/sh and hence all bash constructs are not supported.
>
Isn't that a rather severe change?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-30 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 3:32 Syntax error: Bad substitution Ralph Alvy
2006-10-28 6:22 ` Ralph Alvy
2006-10-28 16:57 ` Ralph Alvy
2006-10-28 22:56 ` Matthew Clarke
2006-10-29 0:14 ` Ralph Alvy
2006-10-29 0:41 ` Matthew Clarke
2006-10-29 1:17 ` Ralph Alvy
2006-10-29 10:26 ` Bart Oldeman
2006-10-29 17:08 ` Ralph Alvy
2006-10-29 17:24 ` Ralph Alvy
2006-10-30 11:08 ` Cristi Mitrana
2006-10-30 21:14 ` Ralph Alvy [this message]
2006-11-01 6:44 ` Cristi Mitrana
2006-11-01 18:01 ` Mike McCarty
2006-11-08 16:23 ` Ralph Alvy
2006-11-08 18:28 ` Bart Oldeman
2006-11-08 20:07 ` Ralph Alvy
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