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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy



On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 18:15 -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> A builtin ls might be a good idea for disaster recovery shells,
> though zsh-static does not have it.  posh is not intended to be
> such a shell, nor to be particularly useful interactively.
> Since I cannot think of a legitimate reason for anyone to use
> ls in a shell script, I think it would add little value.

Well, the goal was (in part) to catch scripts which use non-Posix
features of echo and test; why are non-Posix features of ls not an
issue?

Thomas

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