Script conversion from SCO Open Server to Red Hat Enterprise needed...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> The relevant segment starting at 52 is:
> 
> || {
>     echo "\nEnter the new qualifier: \c"
>     read qual
> }
> 
> 
> My Bourne is way too rusty to remember what that syntax means--if I've ever
> seen it used at all.  All I can tell you without more digging is that bash
> doesn't like it.  Is the Bourne on FBSD a real version, or bash?

That's a logical or on the exit status of...

a missing command.  I believe there's a chunk of the script missing;
I'm not familiar with any shell script syntax ever that permits that
usage.

I'd try looking around for other copies of makequal.  The only
/usr/softa I can find doesn't have a copy of it.  Locate doesn't turn
it up either.  But I think that's broken.

Cheers,
-- jra

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