On 2011-04-06 14:33 +0200, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 28/03/11 Miles Fidelman said: > >> of course you could just run your script under bash > > And I am, but why is dash claiming to be a posix shell by being /bin/sh?
Brace expansion is not Posix, so dash does not support it. For other possible problems, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh. The 'checkbashisms' script in the devscripts package can help you to detect non-portable constructs in shell scripts. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
