[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 10, Issue 46

[Michael Barton]

Probably showing undue ignorance, but I have to ask. How can we know if
something is bash specific or more generally POSIX-compatible?

Michael


On 2/18/07 9:08 PM, "grass-dev-request at grass.itc.it"
<grass-dev-request at grass.itc.it> wrote:

> The only thing which you can absolutely rely upon is that /bin/sh will
> be a POSIX-compatible Bourne shell. Anyone writing scripts would do
> well to bear this in mind (IOW, please avoid using bash-specific
> features).

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