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Re: "sed" bug?
On 17 Jun 1999 at 9:46AM (-0700) itz@lbin.com wrote:
> Is ash supposed to be a full implementation os the POSIX shell?
Not yet. On some platforms ash is in the process of being changed to
conform with the POSIX.2 specification.
> If not, you'll always run into scripts that are hash-banged with
> #!/bin/sh but contain constructs ash won't understand.
I've read that many Linux packages provide scripts hash-banged with
"#!/bin/sh" that depend on "bashisms"... as if bash was some sort of
standard. That would present problems not only for ash but for any
POSIX shell as well.
-glenn
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