[plug] Bash syntax error bad substitution

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On Dec 7, 2007 4:15 PM, Michael Holland <michael.holland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Back to dpkg-reconfigure dash then :)

Tomasz