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Roy Marples wrote: |
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> Hello List |
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> |
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> It's your favourite posix shell lover here, asking for your honest |
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> opinions. |
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> |
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> array="1.2.3.4 netmask 5.6.7.8; |
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> \* |
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> 'host.name' netmask 1.2.3.4 |
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> -I 'option; $FOO with spaces' |
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> " |
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> |
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> array=("1.2.3.4 netmask 5.6.7.8;" |
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> "\*" |
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> "'host.name' netmask 1.2.3.4" |
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> "-I 'option; $FOO with spaces'" |
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> ) |
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> |
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> array="'1.2.3.4 netmask 5.6.7.8;' \ |
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> '\*' \ |
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> \"'host.name' netmask 1.2.3.4\" \ |
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> \"-I 'option; $FOO with spaces'\" |
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> " |
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> |
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> The first and last are of course posix constructs whilst the middle is |
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> bash. |
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> |
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> The bash one is purely there for reference, and of course you can still |
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> use it if /bin/sh is bash. The last one is what baselayout-2 currently |
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> uses and I'm wondering if we should switch to the first one before we |
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> come out of package.mask. |
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> |
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> I'm asking which you think are the most readable of the first and last |
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> ones and if you see any issues with either. |
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The first is much more readable than the last, but only slightly more |
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readable than the middle one. I'm not a sh/bash guru the way many of the |
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developers are, and I can tell you right up front that I'd be more |
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comfortable configuring options if they looked more like the first |
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example, and I'd guess many users would feel the same way. The fewer " ' |
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; \ characters there are to keep track of, the better. |
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