[plug] Bash syntax error bad substitution

David Dartnall darts at dialix.com.au
Thu Dec 6 11:12:47 WST 2007


Mike Holland wrote:
> David Dartnall wrote:
>>  A change from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash at the start of the script 
>> fixed the problem 
>
> So your script claimed to be bourne shell, but really depended on bash 
> features. Not unusual.
No, /bin/sh previously had a link pointing to /bin/bash which the ubuntu 
update apparently changed to /bin/dash.




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