Re: [HACKERS] regress.sh

>
> wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> >     Is it required that variables local in regress.sh have  upper
> >     case? If so, why?
>
> Nope, you just plain broke it.  The only use of the script's $1
> parameter is *above* where you inserted portname=$1 (the test to
> see if on windows).

    Uhhhh - and there where times where I wrote awk scripts who's
    output got piped  into  'groff  -p'  to  produce  statistical
    reports  with  graphics  -  hurts  to  see  that  I'm no real
    programmer anymore :-(

>
> The $1 in the awk script is awk's own meaning of $1.  Since it is
> inside single quotes, the shell doesn't substitute for it.
>
> I strongly suggest patching this before 6.5 ...

    No comment other that "sorry".


Jan

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