[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Is the full definition of what patchk deems
> portable available publicly?

The current standard is here:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pathchk.html

In addition to <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/interps/doc.tpl?gdid=6232>,
which I already mentioned, you probably also want to look here:

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/interps/doc.tpl?gdid=6233

> I attach my findnl util for reference.

Yes, that's the sort of thing that pathchk was designed for.
However, I see several quoting problems in findnl, e.g.
"...\{...".

Another example:

> #The following is clever if I say so myself
> expressions=`eval echo -n '$'expressions$level`

isn't portable, since you can't rely on either -n or backslash
handling with "echo".  Better is something like this:

eval expressions=\$expressions$level


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