Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:50:25 +0100 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > He should have send a mail today. Did you receive it?
>
> yes, thanks
> I sent back a request for details on /usr/bin/ksh and
> how it could complain about 'bad substitution' for !
>
> I have access to a solaris10 sparc machine that
> has /usr/bin/ksh == ksh88i but could not reproduce the problem
>
> does sun's ksh88i enable some form of expansion on ! ?
Yes, it looks like it does expand ! anywhere on the command line.
I did experiment with \! and '!' and it did not help.
The only way to make the script work on Solaris 10 was to change
if test ! -d somedir
then
doit
fi
to
if test -d somedir
then
:
else
doit
fi
J?rg
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