On 05/27/2013 11:11 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
I'm not a programmer. Never was, probably never will be. I'm a sysadmin.
Bourne is my go-to language for anything repetitive for two simple
reasons: it's there, and it doesn't change. Every UNIX and Unixalike has
Bourne shell. Every single one. And it works the same on all of them. A
Bourne script written for Ultrix 3 works on Solaris 9 and RHEL 6 with
maybe a slight tweak for different paths (SysV vs. BSD vs. LSB).
No other scripting language in the world meets those criteria.
Agreed. But, there are some differences in some of the older versions.
Ran into that when doing some scripting at the Digital multi-system lab
where we had scripts for Bourne (Ultrix), Bourne (HP-UX) and Bourne Sun
OS (before Solaris). But, modern versions of SH have a standard.
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