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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Alexander Huemer <alexander.huemer@xx.vu>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org, chet.ramey@case.edu
Subject: Re: Replacement for declare in dash?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:17:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525E9FF6.60401@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131016121859.GA30169@yade.xx.vu>

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.

Chet

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-16 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-16 12:18 Replacement for declare in dash? Alexander Huemer
2013-10-16 13:09 ` Guido Berhoerster
2013-10-16 14:17 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2013-10-16 14:41   ` Eric Blake
2013-10-16 15:34   ` Alexander Huemer

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