[BusyBox] sh hacking: Important to test before 0.50!

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Fri Mar 9 22:13:54 UTC 2001


On Fri Mar 09, 2001 at 01:45:12PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Fri Mar 09, 2001 at 11:41:04AM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> > It's not pretty, it's not fast, its not parser.c, and it's
> > not even Right[TM].  But it should work at least as well
> > as the 0.49 lash for simple things.
> 
> And for slightly complex things, it should work much better...
>     
> And if you compile it with a C lib with wordexp(), it 
> will do all sorts of fancy things
>     
>     BusyBox v0.50pre (2001.03.09-14:40+0000) Built-in shell (lash)
>     Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> 
>     /home/andersen/CVS/busybox $ echo $(echo hello; echo howdy)
>     hello howdy
>     /home/andersen/CVS/busybox $ echo $(((2+3)*(4+5)))
>     45
>     /home/andersen/CVS/busybox $ echo \"`grep Erik README`\"
>     Erik Andersen

And with this fix in place, I can close this bug,

 -Erik

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