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

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Mar 09, 2001 at 11:41:04AM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> Erik and I made some serious changes to the globbing and
> parameter expansion in lash.  I know we said that development
> would move to a major rewrite, but that's not done and I
> couldn't leave lash in such a broken state, so here we are.

I just made a few more fixes a minute ago.  I think it
is quite solid now (and I think I can now close bug #1090).

> 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


> Check out the CVS copy.  You might have to take out a couple
> of last-minute printf's at line 1017 and 1089.  But as soon
> as Erik reads this, he'll probably take them out.

yeah, I fixed that already... (I should be more careful),

 -Erik

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