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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig
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On 09/06/2007, at 21:34, Christian Kujau wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>> Wouldn't this be better expressed as:
>>
>> start=$(($start + 8))
>> size=$(($end - $start))
>>
>> to avoid invoking a subshell?
>
> This is certainly possible for lots for scripts, but was not the
> "scope" of this patch. ` is not bash-specific and does not break
> anything.

$((...)) is not bash-specific either.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@ac.upc.edu>


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