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GAH! Bash script insanity

Subject: GAH! Bash script insanity
From: nullpointer at pobox.com (Dan Barrett)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:22:25 -0500
In-reply-to: <615F0B4C-51DF-11D8-BF96-000A95DA60F4@offthehill.org>
References: <CFCDDD16-51DA-11D8-BF96-000A95DA60F4@offthehill.org> <200401281656.51823.nullpointer@pobox.com> <615F0B4C-51DF-11D8-BF96-000A95DA60F4@offthehill.org>

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?

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- GAH! Bash script insanity
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- GAH! Bash script insanity
  - From: pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)

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