<rant> OK, things do not get deprecated by common sense. Things get deprecated by the makers of a software program or by standard maintainers, neither of which you are for Bash or POSIX. Something being depreciated is quite a major step and means that it probably won't be supported in future versions.
If you believe that one way of multiple alternatives is better you are welcome to say so, and you should provide evidence and reasoning as to why. Otherwise you waste my fucking time trying to figure out why things have been deprecated when, in fact, they haven't --- it's only a chip on your shoulder. You almost just got put in my block list --- and in fact you would be if I could be arsed creating a block list. </rant> Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury "Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change." -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.
