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.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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