"Garrett Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > Sorry for emailing this list, but neither the GNU indexed > homepage nor the actual project page listed any other email address. > I'm trying to determine whether or not this is an implicit bug or > a feature of BSD bourne shell (in particular FreeBSD's sh): > When I try and execute `portsnap fetch update' [1], things go > through as the author intended. However, using `bash portsnap fetch > update' I get the following error message: > > /usr/sbin/portsnap: portsnap: line 882: syntax error near unexpected > token `newline' > /usr/sbin/portsnap: portsnap: line 882: ` if !' > > The incompatible section of code (at least the one that bash > barfs on -- I say that because there are a few similar sections IIRC) > is: > > if !
POSIX does not allow a newline between ! and the command, see <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_10_02>. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
