On 24-Feb-2002 David Egan Evans wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Ben Neuman wrote: > >> (snip) >> bashism! bashism bad! bashisms make me very cranky. bashisms make me install >> bash. bash makes me unhappy. >> > > Gotta say it: I feel the same way. I'm a true kornshell lover (ksh93!), > and gotta make it a flame war :-). Bash does have the posix thing going > for it, though ... >
no, it doesn't have the posix thing. bash not only allows people to not follow the posix shell standard (as we see by this thread existing) its man page does not even bother to let people know what is a bash addition and what is standard shell. and if you really want posix from ksh I believe 'set posix' will do it for you. Several of us started a crusade in Debian about 2 or so years ago to rid Debian as much as possible of bashisms. Usually we could just remove the offending line, sometimes we had to use #!/bin/bash. My box runs /bin/sh as ash and I enjoy sending in the occasional bug.
