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Re: list of bashisms



In article <[🔎] 19970518120634.50114@asm21.emma.cam.ac.uk>,
	Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@poboxes.com> writes:
> There has just been a long list of bugs against packages using `bashisms'
> in their scripts, and I can certainly remember this issue coming up
> before. But I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly have no idea
> what features are available in the `original sh'.

Lots. The small handful of features that are in bash and not in ksh93 should
not be used, but I can't see any reason to stay compatible with ten year old
versions of sh when the posix standard isn't exactly new anymore.
.


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