Re: Netscape communicator helper applications and bash
"Jan Weytjens" <jan@sonycom.com> writes:
> The problem is the (mis)matching of the parentheses.
> When run in an xterm window, I get the same error message.
> Apparently, the problem is with bash (/bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash) which
> complains about about the following syntax:
>
> ((echo A); echo B)
>
> Interestingly, at work we use bash on both SGI and Sun workstations.
> bash on Sun does have the same problem, while bash on SGI doesn't.
>
> Is there a clean solution?
You can install ash and make that your sh; I also have bash 2.01
binaries built on my bo (libc5) system; however, I wasn't careful
about the version numbers when I made them so they don't really fit
into debian's version scheme, (namely, the version number looks like a
maintainer's version number, whereas I am not the bash maintainer) and
you'll have to remember to upgrade them manually if/when you go to
hamm. If you want them, they're available at
http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/bash/
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