On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 16:44 +0200, Andrey Voropaev wrote:
> if [ 0 -eq $UID ]
The variable UID is not defined to be automatically set by the shell in
POSIX; having it set is a bash extension. dash doesn't set it
automatically for you.
You'll have to set it yourself:
UID=$(id -u)
Also you
On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 10:28 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
This is already fixed in the current git tree, by the commit:
Thanks Herbert! I should have checked Git. I did check Debian and the
current dash in stable and sid all still have this issue.
The version in experimental, however,
Hi all. I recently found a bug in dash's handling of substring
processing, when the variable is contained within quotes.
In bash, this works:
bash$ echo $PWD
/home/psmith
bash$ echo ${PWD%${PWD##*/}}.
/home/.
bash$ echo ${PWD%${PWD##*/}}.
/home/.
which is what I expect. However,
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:17 +0200, Dan Muresan wrote:
Wherever Linux goes, bash goes too... except for embedded busyboxy
systems, where everything is customized by hand anyway.
No one ever said you couldn't write shell scripts in bash rather than in
sh, even on Ubuntu. You just have to use
