Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.

From: Francis Galiegue <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:50:31 +0100

Le Friday 31 October 2008 19:39:33 Jeff King, vous avez écrit :
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>
> Agreed, and actually I found such a bashism (test ==) last week (though
> of course it also broke on FreeBSD).
>

As for bash-isms, a hunt for $(...) also looks necessary...

$ grep -rl '\$([^)]\+)' $(find -type f)|wc -l
272

Unless I'm mistaken (and I probably am), the $(...) construct is 
bash-specific, isn't it?

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fge