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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash set dummy ? Post 303033081 by Corona688 on Friday 29th of March 2019 12:24:14 PM
Old 03-29-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by anne
I am little overwhelmed by all responses.

I appreciate the ones actually answering my original post.
Your original post was very unclear -- perhaps through no real fault of your own; autoconf-generated code looks so archaic and weird it could almost be mistaken for Perl. And it's not BASH code exactly, only Bourne, which gave the impression you might not know what language it really was. I recognized that it looked like it was from autoconf -- which actually muddied the waters since autoconf is a writhing mass of 3 or 4 interdependent and partly-overlapping languages(autoconf, m4, make, shell) generating code for each other.

I only realized what it was from one lucky google find, really.

Knowing it was from ./configure would have helped, we would have known for sure it actually was shell and not some other language Smilie
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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