Thank you for the fix. I'll study and commit the changes.

/bin/sh (dash) is posix and should be available in all *nix distros, and I
intend (and already done some) replace bash with sh in shell scripts.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 11:29 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Actually, a better option here (better than #!/bin/bash) would be to
> leave the shebang line as #!/bin/sh and to instead remove the
> dependency on bash.
>
> Instead change line 29 (or 30, if you have taken my advice and
> implemented  an initial cd to the directory containing install-usr.sh)
> to read:
>
> [ j903 = "$(basename "$(pwd)")" ] || { echo directory not j903; exit 1 }
>
> Optionally you could include some quotes which were originally on that
> line, but they are unnecessary here.
>
> FYI,
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 7:10 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm installing j on a linux system.
> >
> > And, I ran into some issues with the j903/bin/install-usr.sh
> >
> > Specifically, if the system /bin/sh is not bash but some other sh
> > implementation, such as dash, running the script will give the
> > message: 'directory not j903'
> >
> > I believe the right fix for this would be to change the initial line to:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > Also, it assumes that it's being run with j903/bin as the current
> > directory. To make this more general, I think that before it executes
> > 'cd ..' it should execute:
> >
> > cd -P "$(dirname "$0")"
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
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