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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh behavior change on RHEL5 Post 302417068 by jlliagre on Wednesday 28th of April 2010 11:51:23 AM
Old 04-28-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by bwhitehd
I think they were simply counting on an old bug in the previous version.
Not a bug but undefined behavior. The bug was in the script, not in the ksh implementation.
 

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GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)					      General Commands Manual					       GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)

NAME
grab-attachments - downloads attachments from a Launchpad bug SYNOPSIS
grab-attachments [options] bug-number... grab-attachments -h DESCRIPTION
grab-attachments is a script to download all attachments from a Launchpad bug report or bug reports with a source package task into a directory named after the bug e.g. bug-1. OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for grab-attachments: bug-number Specifies the Launchpad bug number that the script should download attachments from. -h, --help Display a help message and exit. -l INSTANCE, --lpinstance=INSTANCE Use the specified instance of Launchpad (e.g. "staging"), instead of the default of "production". --no-conf Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables. -d, --duplicates Download attachments from duplicates too. -p SRCPACKAGE, --package=SRCPACKAGE Download attachments from all bugs with a task for this source package. AUTHOR
lp-grab-attachments was written by Daniel Holbach and this manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3. lptools 10 August 2008 GRAB-ATTACHMENTS(1)
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