#!/bin/bash

[Julian Field]

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On 11 Jan 2006, at 14:20, Spicer, Kevin wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:10:51 +0000 Julian Field
> <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
>> I entirely agree with you. I will have to go through the scripts that
>
>> have this and try to check that they don't have any bash-isms that I
>> know of. The only one that springs to mind is
>> 	export VARIABLE=value
>> which I will need to change to
>> 	VARIABLE=value
>> 	export VARIABLE
>>
>> What else should I be looking for? I tend to write for whatever
>> version of sh happens to be on the system I'm writing on at the time.
>
>> Bad practice, I know :-(
>
> I always get bitten by
>
> if [ "X$something" == "something" ]; then
>
> which works fine on bash, but sh only wants a single =

Didn't know == would work on bash, so I'm probably safe on that one.  
There were only 2 or 3 offending scripts anyway.

I have done what people suggested, and have released 4.50.6 for you  
all to play with.

I'm running it on 1 production server so far, and it appears fine,  
and has much lower load average than 4.47 which it was running before.
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