Re: warnings about the shell
Elías Alejandro <ealmdz@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear Lintian Maintainers,
> I was making my script but lintian(2.3.2) said me:
> W: bygfoot: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script preinst:7 '${MIARRAY[*]}'
> According [0] it is this right.
> My script is attach. Please could you explain me.
> [0] http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90046/ch21s07.html
Array variables are not a required POSIX shell feature and therefore
cannot be used with #!/bin/sh scripts. If you want to use extended
features like this, your shell script needs to specify /bin/bash instead.
See Policy 10.4, which also has a direct link to the relevant POSIX
standard, which does not mention arrays at all.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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