Re: sh(1) vs. ksh(1)

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

At 19:24 Uhr +0200 23.10.2008, Alan Barrett wrote:
>What are the permissions of that file?  I checked the web page you
>mentioned, and found that the file was a symlink, but I didn't notice
>any ls(1) output showing the permissions of the target file.

The sxemacs tarball is available at
<http://downloads.sxemacs.org/releases/sxemacs-22.1.9.tar.gz>.

[hf@Gstoder] /<2>sxemacs/sxemacs-22.1.9 > ls -l config*.{sub,guess}
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hf  wheel  23910 Jun  6 04:30 config.guess
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hf  wheel   4072 Jun  6 04:30 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hf  wheel  44595 Jan 17  2008 configfsf.guess
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hf  wheel  32726 Jan 17  2008 configfsf.sub
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hf  wheel  23910 Jun  6 04:27 configgmp.guess
-rwxr-xr-x  1 hf  wheel   4072 Jun  6 04:27 configgmp.sub
[hf@Gstoder] /<2>sxemacs/sxemacs-22.1.9 >

-- the config.{sub,guess} files are copies of the configgmp.{sub,guess}
files. Problems are the same with symlinks as with actual copies.

From the latest feedback by the sxemacs guys, it looks like it's a quoting
issue, possibly different behaviour between calling /bin/echo and the ksh
built-in echo?

Apparently, with ksh(1), the expression

configfsf_sub="`echo \"$0\" | sed 's/config.sub$/configfsf.sub/'`"

ends up with the filename double-quoted in configfsf_sub.

        hauke

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