Ken Bloom wrote: > I'm trying out mr on a solaris machine, and running into bashisms in > mr's default configuration. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mr register 546 > sh: syntax error at line 24: `delta=$' unexpected > mr register: unknown repository type > > this occurs at line 1131 of mr (in the default configuration file > block) > delta=$(perl -wle 'print -f shift() ? int((-M _) * 24) : 9999' "$flagfile") > > Here is a patch for various bashisms. It may not completely eliminate > all bashisms. In particular I only tried to fix the stuff I needed to work > with svn. > > --- bin/mr (revision 4157) > +++ bin/mr (working copy) > @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ > if [ -z "$flagfile" ]; then > error "cannot determine flag filename" > fi > - delta=$(perl -wle 'print -f shift() ? int((-M _) * 24) : > 9999' "$flagfile") > + delta=`perl -wle 'print -f shift() ? int((-M _) * 24) : 9999' > "$flagfile"`
Eh, $() is in POSIX, it is not a bashism. What shell are you trying to use? FWIW, mr was developed on a system with /bin/sh -> dash, and works well here. I don't think the code contains any sort of bashism. -- see shy jo
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