fix tail_history variable resolving.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/showlog b/showlog
index 7d78e3d..477fe75 100755
--- a/showlog
+++ b/showlog
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # /usr/local/sbin/showlog
 # Copyright 2002-2006 Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
 #
-# $Id: showlog,v 1.11 2007-09-27 21:46:27 jonas Exp $
+# $Id: showlog,v 1.12 2007-10-23 21:14:51 jonas Exp $
 #
 # Show topic-specific log entries
 #
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ cat_logs()	{
 	done
 }
 
-tail_history="$(tail_history:-500)"
+tail_history="${tail_history:-500}"
 
 target=$1
 shift || exit1 "Missing argument"