On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> cthulhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > please change #!/bin/sh at the top of your script to #!/bin/bash
> because
> > of the following:
> > 
> > WINDOW_IDS=(`xlsclients -l | grep Window | sed s/"Window "// | sed
> s/://`)
> 
> I'd rather see it adjusted to work with "/bin/sh" than having it require
> bash.  Some systems don't have (or want) bash.
> 
> I'm no sh-wiz, but wouldn't 
> 
> WINDOW_IDS=`xlsclients -l | grep Window | sed s/"Window "// | sed s/://`
> 
> work in /bin/sh work?

It should, but I would place it inside double-quotes, because more than one
continous string is involved. (continous: without spaces or newlines)

--gile
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