Matthew Clarke wrote:
> Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:14:55PM -0700, Ralph Alvy may have written:
>
>> Matthew Clarke wrote:
>>
>> > Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:32:32PM -0700, Ralph Alvy may have written:
>> >
>> >> I'm getting the following error when running dosemu 1.2.2 under a
>> >> newly installed Kubuntu 6.10:
>> >>
>> >> ./xdosemu: 86: Syntax error: Bad substitution
>> >>
>> >> What might be going on here?
>
> [ snip ]
>
>> 84 -install)
>> 85 INSTALL=1
>> 86 if [ -n "$2" -a "${2:0:1}" != "-" ]; then
>> 87 PROPRIETARY=$2
>
> Line 1 of the script says "#! /bin/sh", which implies that the code in the
> script is written in the syntax understood by the Bourne shell. However,
> ${2:0:1} is syntax for the GNU Bourne-again shell (AKA bash), not the
> Bourne shell. My guess is that your other distributions make /bin/sh a
> symbolic link to /bin/bash, but that Kubuntu 6.10 points /bin/sh to some
> other shell that understands Bourne shell syntax but not bash syntax, so
> the other systems hide this error in the script but Kubuntu 6.10 doesn't.
>
> If bash is installed as /bin/bash, you can change the first line of the
> script to
>
> #! /bin/bash
>
> to avoid the problem.
>
> Matt.
Thanks, Matt. This solved it nicely.
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