Yes, this would likely be a show-stopper for anyone who writes scripts for any shell besides sh (or perhaps bash). The whole point of switching to fish is that it is so much more programmer-friendly than those.
Leslie On 2022-09-12 09:27:01 CV Bruce wrote: > In my small education in UNIX/Linux shells, I believe that I read that some > shells will change their behavior depending on the name that they are > invoked with. /bin/sh has behaviors defined in POSIX standards, and on many > Linux systems is linked to bash. When invoked by /bin/sh it takes on the > POSIX behaviors. I would assume that dash would do the same, but I don’t > know that for sure. > > What that means is that certain language features that are available when > invoked by the true name cease to work when invoked by the alias name. > > I believe this is documented on the shell man page. > > Bruce > > Sent by Magic! > > > On Sep 12, 2022, at 2:44 AM, Erich Steinböck <erich.steinbo...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Leslie, > > I think when this was last discussed it was agreed that nowadays > > typically sh would be a link to the preferred shell. Like on my old > > Ubuntu it is /bin/sh -> dash > > > > With this ooRexx won't have to create new environments dedicated to a > > specific shell and users could consistently code address sh or address "" -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Open Object Rexx Version 5.0.0 r12286 Build date: Aug 12 2021 Addressing mode: 64 _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
