/bin/sh shell - the posix shell and {} braces expansion case

Jakub Bogusz qboosh at pld-linux.org
Wed Nov 8 11:49:38 CET 2006


On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:29:51AM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:37, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 
> > Well, there is only bash left as a option for /bin/sh it seems ;-)
> 
> Interesting test suite: 
> http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20050320_1408.html

But it tests only IFS compliance.
What about all other functionality?
bash is not 100% POSIX compliant, although (at least) some of issues are
commonly accepted (e.g. no escape expansion in echo without -e switch).


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