On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:00:01PM -0600, Andrew Elian wrote: > > >On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:38:59PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I'm all in favour of using /bin/bash, but supposedly the > > bootscripts are shell-agnostic. So, which shells in the book > > don't support brace expansion ? > > Dash does not support brace expansion, as far as I know. I also have > found that ash (with patches from Slackware) also doesn't like them. > > ae >
OK, so this is a bug against the book's build of dash. #3371 created - I vote for dropping dash, because I've seen no reason to use it :) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
