On Sat 14 Apr 2007 12:24:43 NZST +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > Can we kill this fallacy already? $() is specified by POSIX[0]. If you've > got some shell that claims to be POSIX conformant and does not support $(), > the shell is broken.
Or just very old. Your reference is 2004. Solaris /bin/sh 10 years ago did not support it AFAIR. But I don't really care, I conlcuded a long time ago that the only really portable way of shell programming is using bash. Or tcsh. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
