Re: broken shell script with dash
On 2011-04-06 14:33 +0200, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 28/03/11 Miles Fidelman said:
>
>> of course you could just run your script under bash
>
> And I am, but why is dash claiming to be a posix shell by being /bin/sh?
Brace expansion is not Posix, so dash does not support it. For other
possible problems, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh.
The 'checkbashisms' script in the devscripts package can help you to
detect non-portable constructs in shell scripts.
Sven
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