On Tuesday 04 February 2003 13:26, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > bsetbg should be a POSIX shell compliant script
> > and run fine under /bin/sh. If it doesn't, post
> > the error so we can debug it.
>
> sorry, didnt realise you were going for POSIX there...
> how silly of me and my little bashy world :D
>
yes, POSIX is preferred.
> the error is:
> "./bsetbg: bad substitution"
>
> no error line or anything :-/
>
> by inserting debugging output in the script i narrowed
> the problem line down to
>
> me=${0##*/}
>
> (line 64)
>
how odd. All of the shells that act like bourne (posix) shells I have access
to accept this notation.
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