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Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu

dummy@example.com (johnraff) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:56:09 +0000

It's common to find scripts that run on bash but break with a top line of #!/bin/sh because debian's default shell is dash. This was a reverse case! I'd been developing the script on dash almost since the start and missed a syntax error (I think it's an error) that dash, for some reason, accepts but bash chokes on.

Specifically,
this:

string2=$( command ) <

doesn't work on bash, but this does:

string2=$( command <

Now fixed.



Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (rstrcogburn) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:49:09 +0000
I like where this is heading... solid pipe menu  --> gpl'ed for #!


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:17:56 +0000
Nice one, thank you! 


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (johnraff) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:59:06 +0000
I'll play it straight and use the GPL style.
Both now updated.


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:32:59 +0000
johnraff wrote:I have no problem with people doing whatever they like with the code, beyond using it to persecute me in some way...
The following is pretty standard for GPL software:
#    
#    Copyright (C)   
#
#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
But as said by benj1, it is up to you. 


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (benj1) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:04:56 +0000
@johnraff
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ … ic_License ?
seriously tho
any licence should be fine, the gpl v2 tends to be the most popular , in the linux eco system at least but at the end of the day its up to you, 
on the other hand i do like
Copyright (C) 2010 JohnRaff
this software is released under the JRL (JohnRaff Licence).


The JohnRaff Licence
---------------------------------
V0.1 Nov 2010
People [can] do whatever they like with the code, beyond using it to persecute me [the licensor] in some way...


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (johnraff) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:20:12 +0000
corenominal wrote:@johnraff, I am working on some updates tonight and I would like to include both of your pipe menus. I noticed that you have not put any license information at the top of the scripts. It would be preferable if you could do this, but not absolutely necessary. Any thoughts?
What kind of license do you think would be most crunchbang-compatible? I have no problem with people doing whatever they like with the code, beyond using it to persecute me in some way...
If you can suggest a suitable form of words, I'd be happy to put it in.


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (Unia) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:29:19 +0000
corenominal wrote:@johnraff, I am working on some updates tonight
Updates for Statler? 


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:18:23 +0000
@johnraff, I am working on some updates tonight and I would like to include both of your pipe menus. I noticed that you have not put any license information at the top of the scripts. It would be preferable if you could do this, but not absolutely necessary. Any thoughts?


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (johnraff) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:06:31 +0000
^  (where's the pulling-out-hair unsmiley?)


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (benj1) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:23:46 +0000
johnraff wrote:"'"\"\.\.\.\\\'AARRRGH\\\'\!\!"'\"
fixed for ya 


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (johnraff) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:31:56 +0000
benj1 wrote:quoting quoted quotes.
...AARRRGH!!  


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (benj1) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:23:13 +0000
well the newest version certainly seems to work, I must say you must have more patience than I for quoting quoted quotes.


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:11:34 +0000
johnraff wrote:When there are a lot of files and folders without any stuff that needs escaping it does the job in 8ms instead of 43ms! 
Nifty! 


Re: Bash (now Dash) "places" openbox pipe menu
dummy@example.com (johnraff) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:27:23 +0000
Hah yet another bugfix - foldernames with quotes got messed up in the last redo. While going over the code yet again I tried getting rid of the escaping functions and putting the code straight in where it's needed. What's lost in readability is made up for by speed. When there are a lot of files and folders without any stuff that needs escaping it does the job in 8ms instead of 43ms! 
http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/838
(Sorry to keep hitting you all with new versions like this - I'm hoping this might be close to the last...)