On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17.15, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Make sure you use only POSIX features when doing this. I think > "grep -o" is a GNU extension, FreeBSD doesn't have it for example. Doesn't the 'only POSIX' apply to the shell code only? At least, shouldn't it be judged on a per-tool basis? While awk is (was?) usually mawk on Debian, and not gawk, I don't think anybody uses a BSD grep on their Debian system. Please don't standardise on a minimal future set only for the corner case that somebody cripples his system beyond every reassonable limit. The 'POSIX shell' rule is here for a reason: there are people with /bin/sh being not bash. For other tools, this rule can be relaxed, imho. cheers -- vbi -- Ich kenne niemanden, der so oft Recht hat wie ich. -- Arno Schmidt
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