On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:00:22PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > A problem is portability of the script, I think it has > now too much gnuisms. That is the least of your worries. If you want to support the proprietary unices, then you will have to deal with the fact that almost all the *current* proprietary unices ship with shells that are broken in one way or another; the older-but-still-present ones are even worse. Forget POSIX if you want portable shell scripting. [You may find C or perl to be significantly easier and probably no less common, it depends on exactly what you're doing] -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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