Re: ext_skel

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Gustavo Badauy wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to use ext_skel on a solaris 2.7 and I'm getting the error > below. > ./ext_skel: test: argument expected > > Does anybody knows how to fix it? Sorry, it was developed on a system where bash is the default shell, and although the first line in that script says '#!/bin/sh', in my system it is in fact just a symlink to /bin/bash. On your system, '/bin/sh' probably doesn't recognize the syntax used in that script. Of course, it would help somewhat if you'd tell what your command line was, it could be a bug in the script itself, but it's really just a tool for other programmers, who are supposed to be able to write one line the right way after the fifth try (meaning, if it was a typo on your part, I most probably do not bother myself with fixing the script). Anyway, I'd be grateful if you could fix all the 'bashims' out of the script, or alternatively, someone giving me a temporary access to a system running the true and original '/bin/sh', so I could do it myself. But, honestly said, if you can't fix the script yourself, you shouldn't be using it or writing a PHP module. Learning a lot of more about Unix systems, their history and and differences, and some nasty quirks in the implementation of some functions in basic c-libraries you take for granted to behave reasonably, should be on the top of your list of things to do. Someday, I might even myself follow my recommendations. There might be some other problems regarding the version of awk you are running, there are a few different ones hanging around (awk, nawk, mawk and gawk comes to my mind), and I'm not sure if all of them are able to run the scripts ext_skel needs, because I'm unable (or too lazy) to test it. :( But, if you have bash installed somewhere on your system, try changing the first line of ext_skel pointing to it. -- Jouni Ahto