On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:55:48PM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> Michael Frank wrote:
<...>
> > GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
>
> 2.02.1(1)-release
<...>
> > - while (( i-- )); do
> > + while (( i=`expr $i - 1` )); do
> >
> > In your opinion are your changes more portable across a wide range of
> > systems?
>
> I didn't think at portability :-). I only made it working for me. Maybe
> there are other persons out there who do have some old versions too - so
> they can use this patch.
Well, I found that i--/i++ don't work with bash-2.03 (present about everywhere)
but i=i-1 or i=i+1 work well. So at least, for portability, this could be
rewritten as "while (( i=i-1 )); do".
Cheers,
Willy
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