[plug] Bash syntax error bad substitution

[Michael Holland]

David Dartnall wrote:

> Yes, I've got the message Tomasz, (and Russell) but I'm the author 
> having learnt (in the last few weeks) enough shell scripting to do what 
> I was attempting, from online tutorials which existed long before the 
> advent of dash. Your last email relating to this encouraged me to do 
> more research on the subject, and 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/61463,

Wow! people get emotional about this.
Even though sh->bash is common, it is "wrong", and causes some valid 
Unix scripts to fail on Linux.
The alternative just breaks thousands of "incorrect" scripts :-)

Anyway, I suggest you stop learning both. Who can respect a shell
where wildcard expansion leaves the wilcard as a literal when it doesnt 
match?

$ ls
a1 a2 a3 b1
$ echo a*
  a1 a2 a3
$ echo foo*
foo*


What was Steve thinking?