[GRASS-user] Parallel GRASS jobs

[Glynn Clements]

Maciek Sieczka wrote:

> > I have extended the "GRASS and Shell" page in the wiki
> > to explain how to launch parallel GRASS jobs:
> >  http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_and_Shell
> > 
> > Feel free to further improve the page.
> 
> Markus,
> 
> The page contains bashisms like "export GISBASE=/usr/local/grass60".
> Shall I de-bash it in this regard?

ash also supports that syntax; coupled with the fact that I don't
recall any reports of problems caused by the numerous occurrences of
that syntax in the supplied scripts, it's probably safe to assume that
it works with any Bourne-style shell which is still in active use.

Aside:

ash is NetBSD's /bin/sh. It used to be Cygwin's /bin/sh, but as the
number of packages grew, fixinng all of the bash-isms in "/bin/sh"
scripts got to be too much work, so they gave up and made bash their
/bin/sh.

bash is living proof that the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy
isn't limited to Microsoft ;)

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>