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Re: curly brackets a bashism?



On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:18:11AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > > Does this mean that package installs {tests or something} should be done
> > > under ash instead of bash?
> > 
> > Not necessarily, it simply means curly brackets shouldn't be used :)
> 
> what it _really_ means is that /bin/sh should point to ash.
> 
> bashisms are fine, as long as you invoke bash.

It's really not worth making /bin/bash the $SHELL just for curly brackets.

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