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Re: ash vs. bash (was: IFS behaviour)



At 17:31 +0100 1999-08-09, Julian Gilbey wrote:
ash understands ~user and $((...)).  It doesn't understand {a,b,c}.
It also doesn't understand [ "$FOO" == bar ].

The former two are POSIX, the latter two are not. Personally, I think whoever put == into bash ought to be shot.
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