-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Metzler on 12/10/2005 6:48 AM: > >> if ! bigrams=`mktemp -t updatedbXXXXXXXXX`; then >> >>However (sadly), the solaris bin/sh doesn't support the "!" operation. > > > Afaik using ! to change the exit status of a pipeline to its logical > NOT is a required POSIX feature.
True, but solaris /bin/sh is not POSIX-compliant. The autoconf project maintains a good list of which shell constructs are portable to a wide variety of shells, and documents that ! at the start of the pipeline should not be used. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDmufW84KuGfSFAYARAlT2AJ9+BIpiNlXfkUdRi+bqDr2DWtIbIwCfVecb 49eKTRaHGEfxolKz6C6gOH4= =pK2x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
