GAH! Bash script insanity

[Dan Barrett]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 17:14, Joshua Pollak wrote:
> Well, this is a fairly rational idea. However, the one issue is that 
> each line is prepended by a platform modifier:
> 
> win32:PARAMETER=myParam
> unix:PARAMETER=myParam


That's a lot of data repetition.  Why not just have a $PLATFORM that specifies 
the host, and have the rest of the variables go about their business?