bash question

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 01/04/2009 12:11 AM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 06:00:04PM -0500, dan moylan wrote:
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>> ben eisenbraun writes:
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>>> What was the error?
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>> error was [: 71: Bad substitution
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> What is on line 71?  That doesn't look like the example script you=20
> posted originally.
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>>> It works fine for me on:
>>> GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin9.0)
>>> GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
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>> yeah, works fine for me too under bash, just not in .profile
>> for login.
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> .profile is not a shell.  I don't think the file has anything to do wit=
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> it.  Either bash is your login shell or it isn't.
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> bene at beacon:~$ cat .profile
> HST=3Dfoobar
> hst=3D${HST:0:3}
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> (logout, login again, no error)
>
> bene at beacon:~$ lsb_release -d
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
> bene at beacon:~$ echo $HST
> foobar
> bene at beacon:~$ echo $hst
> foo
> bene at beacon:~$ echo $BASH
> /bin/bash
> bene at beacon:~$ echo $BASH_VERSION=20
> 3.2.39(1)-release
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> So if it's not working, then you're not running bash.  This seems to be=
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> the conclusion you've come to in later emails.
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Question for Dan,
What happens if you run a terminal (eg GNOME Terminal) as a login=20
shell.  Normally terminals are set by default not to be a login shell.=20
Also, did you check the contents of your ~/.xsession-errors


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