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Use a '!' character to start a non-matching pattern bracket
expression, as specified by POSIX in Shell Command Language section
2.13.1 Patterns Matching a Single Character [1].
I used '^' instead in three places in the previous three commits, to
verify that the arguments of the '--stress=' and '--stress-limit='
options and the values of various '*_PORT' environment variables are
valid numbers. With certain shells, at least with dash (upstream and
in Ubuntu 14.04) and mksh, this led to various undesired behaviors:
# error message in case of a valid number
$ ~/src/dash/src/dash ./t3903-stash.sh --stress=8
error: --stress=<N> requires the number of jobs to run
# not the expected error message
$ ~/src/dash/src/dash ./t3903-stash.sh --stress=foo
./t3903-stash.sh: 238: test: Illegal number: foo
# no error message at all?!
$ mksh ./t3903-stash.sh --stress=foo
$ echo $?
0
Some other shells, e.g. Bash (even in posix mode), ksh, dash in Ubuntu
16.04 or later, are apparently happy to accept '^' just as well.
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_13
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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