[ale] ubuntu users

[Jim Kinney]

Description: DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims
to be as small as
           : possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where
possible. In fact, it is
           : significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for
most tasks.


Might be worth looking into for speed needs.

I still can't fathom arrays in bash even though it's supposed to be there
now...

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> Geoffrey wrote:
> > Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> >> Are you running the same shell on both?
> >
> > Assuming we are running the same, /bin/sh
> >
> >> Some distros use tcsh instead of bash by default.   They also link sh to
> >> it so if you had a shebang of #!/bin/sh it might not be using the shell
> >> you think it is.
> >
> > Interesting, I'll have to check that out, thanks.
>
> That was it, /bin/sh is linked to dash, not bash.  Thanks Jeff.
>
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Geoffrey
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:40 PM
> >> To: ale
> >> Subject: [ale] ubuntu users
> >>
> >> We have a script that is running just fine on RHEL 5.4.  When we run it
> >> on ubunutu (with 'set -x') we get the following error:
> >>
> >> + [ 1 -ne 1 ]
> >> + dir=all
> >> + echo Option all is valid...
> >> Option all is valid...
> >> + cd /esc
> >> + [ all == all ]
> >> [: 1: all: unexpected operator
> >> + [ -d all ]
> >> + echo Apparently all is not checked out. Sorry
> >> Apparently all is not checked out. Sorry
> >>
> >> Here is the code in question.  What is wrong with this?
> >>
> >> if [ "$dir" == "all" ]
> >> then
> >>      for dir in $DOCS $PERL $WEB $ITPROJECTS $SERVERLOG $DBCONFIG
> >> $LOGPRO \
> >>          $SCRIPTS $THIRDPARTY $ONTHEFLY
> >>      do
> >>          if [ -d $dir ]
> >>          then
> >>              echo "Updating $dir..."
> >>              svn update $dir
> >>          else
> >>              echo "Apparently $dir is not checked out. Sorry"
> >>          fi
> >>      done
> >> else
> >> .
> >> .
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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