On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:25:22 -0400, Rick Troth wrote:
>...
>DASH is an excellent test shell for shaking out compatibility problems.
>
But as delivered with many systems it lacks command recall.
>Acorse, the best option would be to run scripts against *several* shells
>(and DASH, BASH, ZSH,
On 8/18/23 11:42, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:16:13 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
As long as they included something that looked like the Bourne shell, adding
other shells as options wouldn't have affected POSIX and X.OPEN compliance.
Bourne shell falls considerable short of
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:16:13 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>As long as they included something that looked like the Bourne shell, adding
>other shells as options wouldn't have affected POSIX and X.OPEN compliance.
>
Bourne shell falls considerable short of POSIX and X.OPEN compliance.
I once told
As long as they included something that looked like the Bourne shell, adding
other shells as options wouldn't have affected POSIX and X.OPEN compliance.
Preferences in e.g., desktop managers, languages, operating systems, are highly
subjective; if it works for you, that's what matters.
Now, if
