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From: Alexander Huemer <alexander.huemer@xx.vu>
Subject: Re: Replacement for declare in dash?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:34:34 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:17:26AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/16/13 8:18 AM, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I wrote a shell script on a non-Debian system and assumed, in my 
> > greenness, that testing it with #!/bin/bash --posix would ensure that 
> > the script would run under dash too. I was wrong. Of course that is the 
> > fault of bash and not dash.
> 
> Maybe you should have verified your assumptions first.  That is simply not
> what the --posix option does.  Posix mode makes bash a superset of Posix;
> it's not a nothing-but-what-posix-specifies mode.

Thanks for your answer and also for the answers of Guido Berhoerster and 
Eric Blake. That's correct, my assumption was wrong. I'll try to use the 
cat << trick, let's see if that works, I won't assume anything at the 
moment ;) Also thanks for the hint regarding posh, I didn't know that.

Kind regards,
-Alex