Re: shell portability question

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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Hi Paul!

On 19 Sep 2004, at 05:11, Paul Eggert wrote:

> "Gary V.Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > # Check that break and continue aren't misused in our portable shell 
> > scripts.
> > $EGREP -n '[^    ]=[^    ].*(break|continue)' $scripts \
>
> I dunno, but perhaps it's checking for invalid usages like this?
>
>   foo=bar break
>
> That would indeed be invalid, but usages like
>
>   test -r foo && bar=baz && break
>
> are OK as far as I know.

Okay, thanks for the reply.

I'll change the test to:

  $EGREP -n '[^         ]=[^    ]*[     ]*(break|continue)' $scripts

Which will also stop it choking on valid things like this:

  foo=bar; break

Cheers,
        Gary.
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