Rob Landley wrote: > In a private email, Bernd Petrovitsch suggested "set -- $i" and then > using NAME=$1; PERIOD=$2. (I keep getting private email responses > to these sort of threads, and then getting dismissed as the only one > who cares about the issue. Less so this time around, but still...) > This apparently works all the way back to the bourne shell.
If you're going "all the way back to the bourne shell", don't use "set -- $i"; use "set x $i" instead, and don't expect to do any arithmetic in the shell; use "expr" or "awk" for arithmetic. (Not relevant to kernel scripts, imho, since you can always assume something a bit more modern and not too stripped down). (I have 850 Linux boxes on my network with a bourne shell which doesn't do $((...)). I won't be building kernels on them though :-) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
