On 27-Aug-2001 Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:06:41AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> my @bashism_regexs = ( > .. >> ); >> >> This is the array of regexes I test Debian scripts against in lintian. it >> is >> not all encompassing but it catches most of the egregious ones that bash >> allows >> and which the manpage does not clearly define as bash extras. >> > > This looks useful. How can I apply it as a stand-alone tool? It'd be > useful to be able to run it directly against the script rather than having > to the create the deb file for lintian to test against. I would imagine it > would be useful to add to the bash package, too. >
look at /usr/share/lintian/checks/control-files. Basically read in a line, run the regex on the line. If it matches print a warning. There is some extra logic to protect HERE documents and the like, but it is pretty unsophisticated.
