[Gllug] Web Site Creation
Tethys
sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Fri Nov 4 00:11:33 UTC 2005
"Martin A. Brooks" writes:
>However when you are writing stuff that's going to be running on N
>different operating systems shell scripting becomes less portable.
>Supposing your favourite shell isn't available, what do you do then?
But my favourite shell *is* available. I don't write bash scripts
specifically because bash isn't everywhere. Bourne shell *is*. When
I run into something that /bin/sh doesn't handle, I switch to ksh,
which is as close to everywhere as you'll find. More so than perl,
for example...
Tet
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