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The subject line mostly says it all, but for reference, having #!/bin/sh causes the following error: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: " % 255 + 1" --- test/test_flac.sh | 2 +- test/test_grabbag.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/test/test_flac.sh b/test/test_flac.sh index 10981c0..257c5ea 100755 --- a/test/test_flac.sh +++

...auses the following error: > > > > arithmetic expression: expecting primary: " % 255 + 1" > > Arithmetic support is actually not the issue, rather its that dash/sh > doesn't support $RANDOM. The solution to this is to replace $RANDOM > with $(date +%N) which is obviouslsy not all that random, but which > is close enough to random for this usage. > > Since Jaren is in the process of making the scripts POSIX shell > compliant, I think swicthing to bash is a bad idea :-). > > I was going to do the $RANDOM to $(date +%N) conversion after Jaren's &g...