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Re: Potential enhancements to install-font.sh from https://www.schaffter
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: Potential enhancements to install-font.sh from https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh |
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Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:20:20 -0400 |
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:45:46 -0400
> Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Something similar but more robust and not reliant on a particular
> > shell interpreter would be better.
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> I just took a look, Peter, because I have some experience writing
> Bourne shell scripts. I don't see anything bash-specific, just
> looking over it. You might just change #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh;
> I think it will run pretty well, maybe perfectly.
On Debian derivatives, dash(1) has a bug in its signal handling,
hence !#/bin/bash rather than the generic !#/bin/sh. In turn, bash(1)
requires the bash-specific 'set -o posix' in order for ctrl-C to
work.
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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca