run-tests: bugfix on mktemp

Radoslaw AstralStorm Szkodzinski astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl
Fri Jul 29 05:52:31 UTC 2005


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:32:01 -0400
Aron Griffis <agriffis at gentoo.org> wrote:

> That spec also says that Bourne shells will provide:
> 
>   - $(command) 

Well, the backticks do work all right.

>   - tilde expansion

Who uses that?

>   - substring processing with ${VAR#word} and friends

"Schade."

>   - arithmetic expansion with $(( expr ))

So how do I do mathematics in shell? bc? And what if somebody doesn't have it?
I'd have to rewrite even more scripts to fix this. :/

> 
> Rare is the commercial implementation of Bourne shell that supports
> those features.
> 

Why use a (broken) commercial implementation if you have a much better free
one?

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