On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > "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. It is not ash's job to be a POSIX shell script validation suite. It is ash's job to be a Bourne-compatible shell. It is valuable to many people because it accomplishes that end in much less space than bash. A POSIX shell script validator would be a useful thing to have, but I don't think we should draft ash into that service by default. Maybe if the environment variable POSIX_ME_HARDER is set... -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux | emacs is always overkill. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Stephen J. Carpenter cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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