On Fri, 18 May 2012 00:45:15 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:00:01PM -0600, Andrew Elian wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > 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 :) Dash is small (about 1/6th the size of Bash) and fast (I don't have any benchmarks to hand) so I do think it has a place on some systems that are low on disk space and CPU power. I personally couldn't live with its limited features but it is said to be a Posix compliant shell. I'd use it if I wanted to check if a script was Posix compliant. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
