Re: bashism question
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:34 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> >
> >> Supporting "local x" would be relatively simple; suggestions for a
> >> reliable regex to catch use of -a/-o welcome... :)
> >
> > There was a fairly good one in Lintian that I took out once Policy blessed
> > it, or at least we didn't get a lot of false positive reports.
> >
>
> Maintainer scripts are fairly simple so I don't think there will be many
> false positives ;)
The expression looks fairly robust and passes my testing so far;
admittedly the archive is full of scripts that break almost every
assumption I ever made about shell scripting.
This is getting a little off-topic for -devel I think :)
Adam
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