Re: bash problems
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
:Is there an error in the 2.0x versions of bash on ftp.debian.org? I'm
:trying to run a script called "makemake" in order to compile clisp, and I
:get a million errors like these:
:
:./makemake: command substitution: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression
:./makemake: command substitution: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `2'
:./makemake: command substitution: line 1: `((arch) 2>/dev/null || uname -m 2>/dev/null) | $tolower'
:./makemake: command substitution: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression
:./makemake: command substitution: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `2'
:./makemake: command substitution: line 1: `((uname) 2>/dev/null || arch 2>/dev/null) | $tolower'
:./makemake: [: too many arguments
:./makemake: [: =: unary operator expected
:
:I'm a tcsh kinda guy, so bash isn't something I'm generally familiar
:with. But the same script runs fine on a SunOS machine's version of bash,
:so I don't think it's the script ...
As far as I know there is a bug in bash 2.0, period, not just the debian
version. I believe this was fixed in 2.00.0(1), but I could be wrong.
There was a big discussion about this a few weeks ago.
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