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From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: "shirish शिरीष" <shirishag75@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: ./pkg-search.sh: 2: ./pkg-search.sh: Bad substitution in a shell script -
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 22:29:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170508222917.GA2806@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdDZRmRA=M2kLc7zFEU5peUiVQUorRN=EQeLwDTbtOpS9Ox+A@mail.gmail.com>

shirish शिरीष wrote on Tue, May 09, 2017 at 02:28:15 +0530:
> ─[$] cat pkg-search.sh
>      1	for file in /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.gz; do
>      2	    package=${file:15}

> Trying to run the script under zsh I get the following -
> 
> [$] ./pkg-search.sh
> ./pkg-search.sh: 2: ./pkg-search.sh: Bad substitution

That runs the script under sh.  To run it under zsh, add

    #!/usr/bin/env zsh

as the first line of the script.




      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-08 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-08 20:58 shirish शिरीष
2017-05-08 22:29 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]

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