From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ralph Alvy <ralvy@warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: Syntax error: Bad substitution
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:14:29 -0800
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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?