Re: patch to fix bashism

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:11:38PM +0159, Han Boetes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch fixes a three bashisms in
> scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh;
> 
> I'm not sure of the intention of the second change (local
> name=...). So it's very well possible that:
> 
> +       local name="${location%/$srcdir}"
> 
> is more appropriate.

This patch is not going to work; local is a bash:ism too, hence this
will fail when /bin/sh is a more strict POSIX-shell.  However,
it is quite likely that the use of local is merely due to the
(totally correct) instinct of always limiting the scope of variables.
Most scripts that I've POSIX-fixed so far could just have the local
removed with no bad effects.

> --- scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh.orig	2005-03-27 14:53:15.628883408 +0200
> +++ scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh	2005-03-27 15:12:20.093898280 +0200
> @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
> -#!/bin/bash
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +# script is sourced, the shebang is ignored.
> +
>  # Copyright (C) Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
>  # Released under the terms of the GNU GPL
>  #
> @@ -56,9 +59,9 @@
>  
>  parse() {
>  	local location="$1"
> -	local name="${location/${srcdir}//}"
> +	local name="${location#$srcdir/}"
>  	# change '//' into '/'
> -	name="${name//\/\///}"
> +	name=`echo $name|sed -e 's|//|/|g'`

Using $(...) instead of `...` helps readability quite a lot for
things like this...

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