On 7/25/25 11:46 PM, Collin Funk wrote:
Hi Bruno,While reviewing your Coreutils 'date' patch, I skimmed some of the linked gettext manual. I noticed this text [1]: At the shell prompt, merely execute ‘setenv LANG de_DE’ (in csh), ‘export LANG; LANG=de_DE’ (in sh) or ‘export LANG=de_DE’ (in bash). I had assumed the sh/bash distinction enough was old enough to get rid of. As far as I can tell, export with the assignment has been supported since XPG4 [2]. But on Solaris 10 (cfarm210), we can see /bin/sh is missing this feature:
Solaris sh is the original SVR4 sh, which doesn't have this feature.
$ export A=B
A=B: is not an identifier
The /usr/xpg4/bin/sh (not sure if Solaris comes with this) shell does
support it though:
That's the Solaris XPG4/Posix sh, derived from ksh88.
[2] I couldn't find the documentation in HTML, so see § 2.14.8: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009656399/toc.pdf
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/contents.html -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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