Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote: > - more esoteric stuff such as arithmetic expressions and arrays Hmm, arithmetic expansion with $((...)) *is* in the POSIX shell. Maybe not all that bash can do for arithmetic stuff, but at least this part. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_04 -- Florent