a much improved smbprint script.

Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Mon Dec 10 16:38:01 GMT 2001


Helge Blischke wrote:

>Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>
>>>Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>
>>>OK, another problem I have is that ${param:+word} does not look portable.
>>>
>>because it's not portable. I tried something similiar once (with i18n
>>manpages) and it failed with c-shells. If you really need it to be
>>one-line command, use sed. I know, relying on sed is not the best
>>example of portability, but it's used anyway in samba scripts.
>>
>>From my experience, that construct is common to all Bourne shells and
>supported as well by ksh and bash on all UNIXes I've seen so far (about
>a
>dozen variants). And, by beginning the first line of a script with
>"#!/bin/sh" (without the quotes, of course), the use of sh is forced.
>
Does that include ULTRIX and SCO, and DG/UG?

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