On 6/24/19 7:37 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > >> Why would I do that? The default for `sh' is posix mode. > > Why then does bash then still behaves different from POSIX?
If you find places where bash doesn't match POSIX when in posix mode, please report them as bugs. > I would expect to get XSI behavior for echo as well since it is improbable > that a typical bash user expects the reduced interfaces for embedded systems. Bash claims posix conformance with the posix and xpg_echo options enabled. You can build bash so that both of these are enabled for strict conformance. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/