On 8/10/11 10:59 PM, Clark J. Wang wrote: >> How can people write stable scripts in an enironment of constant change? >> This is creating the exact opposite of what POSIX is supposed to help! >> > > I found the similar problem. Bash has changed a lot since 2.05b which is the > 1st version of bash I've used. That's fine for everyday interactive use but > introduces some incompatibility for scripts.
Keep in mind that bash-2.05b was released over nine years ago. Things change in nine years. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/