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On Monday 08 June 2009 06:00:14 Roy Marples wrote: |
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> Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:00:59AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> IIRC vapier patched busybox to alias [[ to [, which is worse as you |
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> still have to quote correctly as if [ and you don't get the =~ operator |
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> from [[. |
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i reverted that from busybox' ash a while ago |
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> > I'm all for going with something that will work more globally, IFF it |
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> > can be easily tested for (on pure Gentoo Linux machines, which is what |
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> > most developers are running, because they won't be bothered to test |
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> > under G/FBSD or Prefix/OSX etc), vs. just going by what the |
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> > specification says. |
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> The only available shell on Linux that doesn't do anything other than |
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> the POSIX spec is dash. However, even that shell is not entirely |
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> compliant (a few missing features last I looked). |
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and a few extra :p |
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busybox' hush is pretty good, but not as widely tested yet |
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-mike |
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