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On 1/14/10 5:57 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Mark Duckworth wrote:
>> So in rpm there is a line like mkdir -p
>> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/{bin,usr/bin,usr/man/man1}
>
> Beware this is a bashism.
> It works when executed by bash, but not by EasyMiNT's sh.
>
> I don't know which shell executes the RPM commands.
> Similarly, "make" always use sh.
>
> In conclusion, this syntax should be used only if you are sure that 
> the script is executed by bash.
>
Hmm, ok.  I know an older version of bash, bash and sh were the same.  
Maybe that explains how this came to be.

Thanks,
Mark