** On Jun 24, Mark Phillips scribbled: > Corey Popelier [pancreas@dingoblue.net.au] wrote: > > > Yes I have this problem also. I assume we shall await a fix. And use > > Mozilla in the meantime :) [snip] > And the problem seems to be with a syntax error at the line > > for f in (cd $d;ls -1 . | sort); do > > According to "man bash", the "(cd $d;ls -1 . | sort)" is a compound You shouldn't rely on what bash supports or not. The Debian shell scripts are supposed to be POSIX-compatible, and not everything bash implements is POSIX. > command where the stuff in brackets is executed in its own shell. So > what this line seems to be trying to do, is to go to a certain > directory, get a sorted listing of the files there and then go through > them one by one, executing ". $d/$f" for each of them. What is the > "." command??? I thought it was the current directory? It's the 'source' command. It takes its argument and interprets the file as a shell code - you might think of it as sort of dynamic linking for scripts. > Anyway, the reason for the syntax error is with the definition of a > for loop in bash. From "man bash": > > for name [ in word ] ; do list ; done Again, don't rely on bash being the /bin/sh. Debian scripts cannot do that. > Now "word" is a list of blank separated words I believe, so it does > not allow the "(cd $d;ls -1 . | sort)" construction to be used here. > So somehow we need to find an alternative. I don't use that script, but I think adding $ before the first bracket would do the trick. > Any ideas? Upgrade :)) - it will have been fixed when you read those words most probably :)) marek
Attachment:
pgpIBXEp96iz7.pgp
Description: PGP signature