On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:14:21 +0100
Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:

> You've been playing with solaris packages? Google thingks xpg4 is
> something to do with X/Open, but xpg4/bin gets mentioned in questions
> about the differences between multiple versions of common unix tools,
> usually on solaris, sometiems on HP-UX (for POSIX-compliant versions
> of the tools, where the old vendor-supplied versions are "limited").


For those interested, I found a good discussion about it here:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198905/when-to-use-xpg-version-of-a-command

The xpg versions are POSIX-compliant. The xpg directory is not generally
needed or used under Linux of FreeBSD because the default system utilities
in /bin and /usr/bin are already POSIX-compliant.


  Cheers,

  Mike Shell
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