I didn't notice that this had a bad address for the ML when I replied.
--- Begin Message ---On 2/3/26 6:38 PM, Robert Elz wrote:Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 09:37:13 -0500 From: Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]>| On the other hand, there's no problem with using bash features when | you're writing a bash script and don't have to be concerned about | portability. Not if just portability of the particular script is what matters, no. But there are two drawbacks to that mentalitySo different circumstances inform different requirements, sure. But my point stands -- if you are writing a bash script, there's no problem using bash features. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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