Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (130 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <guido+opensuse.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx> [2010-03-24 16:53]:
> Am Mittwoch 24 März 2010 schrieb Michael Matz:
> > I trust that that one is more capable than our ash? :
> > % /bin/ash -c 'i=0; j=$((i+1))'
> > arith: syntax error: "i+1"
> Make it $i - then both ash and dash can do it.

Note that $i and i lead to different behavior with arithmetic
expansion. $(( $i+1 )) happily yields 1 if i is set to a
non-integer while $(( i+1 )) results in a syntax error. The
latter is almost alway what you want since it catches potential
errors.

Assignments also do not work with $i, $(( $i=1 )) is an error
while $(( i=1 )) is valid and assigns i.

Except for legacy scripts it is probably a better idea to use
dash since it has many other issues fixed.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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