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

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:49, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> 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?

Haven't seen tests for 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).

It seems that there is no single POSIX compilant shell. I wonder which is 
closest to posix compilance?

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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