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Re: shell portability question
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: shell portability question |
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Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:11:15 -0700 |
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"Gary V.Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:
> # Check that break and continue aren't misused in our portable shell scripts.
> $EGREP -n '[^ ]=[^ ].*(break|continue)' $scripts \
I dunno, but perhaps it's checking for invalid usages like this?
foo=bar break
That would indeed be invalid, but usages like
test -r foo && bar=baz && break
are OK as far as I know.