Lars Schneider <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK. I am not that experienced with shell scripting and therefore it
> is hard for me to distinguish between the different shell features.
> Do you know/can you recommend the most basic shell to test/work
> with? A quick Google search told me that "dash" from Ubuntu seems
> to be a good baseline as it aims to support pretty much only POSIX [1].
Yes, I recommend dash as your /bin/sh if you're using a
Debian-based system ("Debian Almquist shell") such as Ubuntu.
Also, the Debian "devscripts" package has a tool called
"checkbashisms" which I have also found very useful.
Maybe ksh(93) or posh could be good, too, but it's been a
while...
I also rely on checking the manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev
in the "non-free" section of Debian ("multiverse" in Ubuntu?)
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