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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:36:16 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster.sh
Message-ID:  <20020610223616.GR88163@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020610221856.GD18221@hades.hell.gr>
References:  <20020610071649.89D2E37B409@hub.freebsd.org> <20020610221856.GD18221@hades.hell.gr>

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* Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> [020610 15:22] wrote:
> On 2002-06-10 00:16 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > dougb       2002/06/10 00:16:42 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster.sh
> >   Log:
> >   Go back to taking the user's umask into account. Thanks to Alfred for
> >   hatching the idea of using dc, and Giorgos (keramida) for incubating it.
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> Thank you for all the work you put into importing stat(1) and
> simplifying what it takes to make this work :-)

GRR!!! I'm pissed that sh(1) doesn't mention that one can do
binary arithmatic within $(()), I spent an hour looking for
some utility that could...

Well, nice usage. :)

Any chance someone will document exactly what one can do with
our sh(1)'s $(()) construct?  Or did I miss it?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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