On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Erik Andersen wrote: > iThis is correct, but has the unfortunate side effect of not being portable, > since not all /bin/sh happin to be bash.
No, it also works with ksh. I believe posix.2 specifies that /bin/sh has to provide various features---basically to be a clone of ksh. Although it would be nice for scripts to work on all versions of /bin/sh, I can't see supporting non-POSIX machines is terribly important compared to easier to read scripts. (If I'm wrong, and POSIX only specifies that ksh has to do all that, then maybe we should make ksh a symlink to bash so our scipts can use that for everything?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
