Re: ash/echo/POSIX/SUS

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On 27 Oct 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> Hi,
> >>"David" == David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> writes:
> 
>  David> On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:18:23AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>  
>  David> No, it's not his contention. It's his contention that an echo
>  David> that doesn't accept -n doesn't violate POSIX, so a script that
>  David> depened on an echo that accepts -n isn't POSIX complaint.
>  
>         That's fine and dandy. What does that have to do wish ash? 

"If your script works with `ash', it's probably POSIX compliant, [...]"

An ash which is restrictive in which it accepts helps to indentify
non-POSIX-conformant shell scripts more than one which is not so
restrictive.

Thanks.

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