Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 19:50:23 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/sh changed? Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20020806194234.056ec640@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020806231327.GD1019@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0208061621470.93936-100000@elara.frii.com> <Pine.BSF.4.44.0208061621470.93936-100000@elara.frii.com>
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Hmmm.... Anyone have a list of "bad" things like this that need to be fixed ?
---Mike
At 07:13 PM 06/08/2002 -0400, The Anarcat wrote:
>Ok, it seems a recent MFC made /bin/sh DTRT after all.
>
>Indeed the line in locate.mklocatedb:
>
> || exit 1
>
>is faulty. Either the line before needs a backslash to continuate the
>line, or drop the '||'.
>
>I'm not sure why the locate script hasn't been (completely) fixed, but
>it should be fixed. Not /bin/sh.
>
>Same goes for that ugly mysql startup script.
>
>A.
>
>On Tue Aug 06, 2002 at 04:29:18PM -0600, C.J. wrote:
> > cvsup @11:45MDT - RELENG_4
> >
> > Noticed quite by accident:
> >
> > root@host (/root) # /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
> > /usr/libexec/locate.mklocatedb: 87: Syntax error: "||" unexpected
> >
> > From /usr/libexec/locate.mklocatedb line 87:
> >
> > perl -ne '/^\s*[0-9]+\s(..)$/ && print $1 || exit 1' > $bigrams
> > || exit 1
> >
> > It looks as if, by my extremely limited knowledge of /bin/sh, if you wrap
> > the || statement down to the next line the shell can no longer understand
> > since conjoining these two lines solves the problem. I can see where this
> > is going to be a huge pain in the butt on the rest of my boxes. Was this
> > change intentional?
> >
> >
> > - C.J.
> >
> >
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