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Re: /bin/sh diversions



On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 06:11:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 01 août 2007 à 18:00 +0200, Pierre Habouzit a écrit :
> >   And wrt scripts out there, there is 2 kinds of scripts:
> >   * the old one that are written by people on obsolete platforms where
> >     the de facto standard was a local ksh shell, and we can expect those
> >     to work properly on dash.
> 
> Well, no, ksh has some extensions to POSIX. AFAIK most if not all of
> them work with bash, so using /bin/bash looks like the solution for
> these scripts.

  Afaict AIX ksh has not _that_ many exensions, and dash implement most
of them.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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