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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Serious brain damage in /bin/sh for FreeBSD 2.1.5
Date: 3 Dec 1996 00:33:18 -0000
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In article <32A17168.446B9B3D@freebsd.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: He's also wrong about the Berkeley people. csh may have originated
: there, but nobody in his right mind that I know of actually writes shell
: scripts in it. There is only one standard way of writing shell scripts
: which will actually run reliably on a large number of UN*X machines, and
: that's to write them in pure sh. I would certainly never write a
: mainstream shell script in anything else.
Except that the ${..##..} and ${..%%..} are hugely useful. Using
basename/dirname isn't very portable and the expr/sed syntax is slow
and a bitch to interpret.
Of course ash has this built in, but a standard bourne shell doesn't.
[.....]
: /bin/sh should be a lean, mean,
: standard by-the-book bourne shell and that's it.
I'm surprised that it isn't !
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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