On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:26:33AM -0600, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > I'm finding that modern systems have pretty much the union of things > that I need, and also that the older ones that don't simply aren't > in use anymore. E.g., do you still need to support SunOS 4.1.x? Ultrix? > OSF/1? Irix?
We still have a couple Irix systems here. > I removed a lot of crufty code in gawk ~3 years ago to zero complaints. > You might be able to do that in Bash (e.g., assume /dev/fd), especially > if you do it a major release point (Bash 5.0). Please don't do that! imadev:~$ ls -ld /dev/fd /dev/fd not found imadev:~$ uname -a HP-UX imadev B.10.20 A 9000/785 2008897791 two-user license