On 10/16/13 8:18 AM, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a shell script on a non-Debian system and assumed, in my 
> greenness, that testing it with #!/bin/bash --posix would ensure that 
> the script would run under dash too. I was wrong. Of course that is the 
> fault of bash and not dash.

Maybe you should have verified your assumptions first.  That is simply not
what the --posix option does.  Posix mode makes bash a superset of Posix;
it's not a nothing-but-what-posix-specifies mode.

Chet

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