On Thursday 13 May 2010 18:05:53 Peter Tyser wrote:
> Using 'read' without a variable is not supported in many shells.  Lines
> such as 'while read; do' in gen_build_files.sh would result in build
> failures when using sh or dash as an interpreter:

Simple fix: say #!/bin/bash at the top of all shell scripts, always.

Speaking of which, when hush gets close to being a reasonable bash replacement 
(about when we're ready to delete ash), we should teach it to be callable via 
a "bash" alias, since so many scripts do this becase the Defective Annoying 
Shell is such a horrid Ubuntu-ism.

Rob
-- 
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds
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