On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 16:47 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I've attempted to port the many shell scripts I've written over the > > years to dash. The three irritants are: > > > > - pipefail, > > <http://cfajohnson.com/shell/cus-faq-2.html#Q11>. That's one of those "scratch my eyes out" solutions. A more readable solution is just to say the exit status of each command in a temporary file. Given how infrequently the problem arises, it isn't a major issue. > > - local variables, > > dash does have local variables support. So it does! You now have me wondering why I thought it didn't. > > - array variables. No workaround for this one? Pity. This is what usually prevents conversion.
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