Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 06:11:47 Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> mkudir() { (u=$1; g=$2; shift 2; install -d -o"$u" -g"$g" "$@"); }
>> Good idea.
>> I prefer to use "local", and thus to avoid forking a subshell.
>
> in general, i agree. however, some people like to omit "local" support from
> their shell (since it isnt in POSIX), or do really stupid s**t like requiring
> quoting on the RHS (dash comes to mind).
Testing with an old dash (0.5.4-1ubuntu3) shows that it
handles local, and does not need quoting on RHS.
"local" is not POSIX compatible though, and ksh doesn't like it at least.
cheers,
Pádraig.
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