Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Apr 05 15:39:51 -0400 2010: > ksh is standard (been there since almost forever), and is even on > boot cdroms. But you wont use that either, I presume.... The true > reason, I'm guessing, being that "it's not bash" :-)
You presume wrong. If I was familiar with ksh, I'd turn to that first. I'm not...and I see _zero_ value in learning it in 2010. Bash is 'standard enough' as it's on sol8+, which for CSW purposes is all that's required. It lets me do things without calling out to external tools for something simple like this, which is why I didn't turn to xpg4/bin/sh. If, hypothetically, bash isn't an acceptable, my next tool (when looking for something widely available) would be perl... Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
