[Gnumed-devel] Re: problems to restore DB in Debian Testing

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:26:27PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > Your shell is bash, as it should (for the restore).
> 
> Back from holiday I try to work down my mail backlog.  I wonder why the first
> line
> 
>    #!/bin/bash
> 
> does not have the effect of using bash as command interpreter.

I have ben wondering about that, too, but didn't really see
any further way to debug this.

> PS: It is always a good idea not to relay on specific Bash features if not
>     really necessary.

I agree.

>  IMHO the same effect as
> 
>       if [[ "$BACKUP" =~ .*\.bz2 ]] ; then
> 
>     can be reached by
> 
>       if echo "$BACKUP" | grep -q "\.bz2$" ; then
> 
>     (UNTESTED!) and works for any shell.

Even better would be to use "test", I suppose.

I am open to patches.

Karsten
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