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Re: Syntax error near unexpected token `newline' within loops
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Syntax error near unexpected token `newline' within loops |
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Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:48:27 -0400 |
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On 4/24/17 8:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Seriously, "expr length"?! In a script that is already using bashisms?
That works on Linux, but not on the BSDs, since Posix says it doesn't
have to.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/