Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:56:48AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:46 +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> > Well, let's hope people don't use any of the non-SuSv3 features of cat
> > in their shell scripts...
>
> Why? Who cares?
Well, be honest. Have you ever used any options *at all* to cat in
your scripts?
> This is some huge amount of work for some very little benefit.
It's work that has to be done only once, and as long as people accept
patches, you don't even have to do it yourself, there's plenty of other
people willing to help.
Regards: David
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