Re: [HACKERS] regress.sh

>
> wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> > Is it required that variables local in regress.sh have upper
> > case? If so, why?
>
> Nope, you just plain broke it. The only use of the script's $1
> parameter is *above* where you inserted portname=$1 (the test to
> see if on windows).

Uhhhh - and there where times where I wrote awk scripts who's
output got piped into 'groff -p' to produce statistical
reports with graphics - hurts to see that I'm no real
programmer anymore :-(

>
> The $1 in the awk script is awk's own meaning of $1. Since it is
> inside single quotes, the shell doesn't substitute for it.
>
> I strongly suggest patching this before 6.5 ...

No comment other that "sorry".

Jan

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