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

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Wed Nov 8 20:21:01 CET 2006


Dnia 08-11-2006, śro o godzinie 11:54 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
napisał(a):
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:49, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > But it tests only IFS compliance.
> > What about all other functionality?
> Haven't seen tests for other functionality.

Should we aim at perfect POSIX compatibility or perfect usability? Bash
does not seem to be a heavy dependency and is actively maintained (so
the compatibility issues will go away over time as opposed to pdksh).

> > 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?

As above.

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Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org>
PLD Linux
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