[libvirt] Remove bashisms from libvirt-guests
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Mon Dec 20 16:01:14 UTC 2010
On 12/18/2010 04:51 AM, Laurent Léonard wrote:
>>>
>>> - retval wait $virsh_pid && printf '\r%s%-12s\n' "$label" $"done"
>>> + retval wait $virsh_pid && printf '\r%s%-12s\n' "$label" "`gettext
>>> \"done\"`"
>>
>> Likewise: "$(gettext "done")"
>>
>> But thanks for taking this on; we're getting closer to a nice solution.
>
> I followed:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Preparing-Shell-Scripts.html
> but totally agree with your comments.
The gettext manual assumes that you are trying to be portable to all
sorts of /bin/sh, including Solaris's horribly-dated version that lacks
lots of POSIX features, hence it uses `` instead of $(). But for a
Linux init script, we can safely assume a decent POSIX shell.
--
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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