On 2017-08-03 23:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The Turtle Book (Classic Shell Scripting by Robbins and Beebe) is > > pretty good at explaining the differences between the various > > implementations. OTOH it also contains some (IMO) dubious > > recommendations which have unfortunately become conventional wisdom. > > Would you like to expand on that?
Not really :-) But ok, the top two are xargs and read (when reading streams, that is, not when prompting interactively, that's what read is for). -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.
