On Monday 08 June 2009 06:00:14 Roy Marples wrote: > Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:00:59AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > IIRC vapier patched busybox to alias [[ to [, which is worse as you > still have to quote correctly as if [ and you don't get the =~ operator > from [[.
i reverted that from busybox' ash a while ago > > I'm all for going with something that will work more globally, IFF it > > can be easily tested for (on pure Gentoo Linux machines, which is what > > most developers are running, because they won't be bothered to test > > under G/FBSD or Prefix/OSX etc), vs. just going by what the > > specification says. > > The only available shell on Linux that doesn't do anything other than > the POSIX spec is dash. However, even that shell is not entirely > compliant (a few missing features last I looked). and a few extra :p busybox' hush is pretty good, but not as widely tested yet -mike
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