[Gllug] Bourne shell programming

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Nov 23 08:38:01 UTC 2006


On 20 Nov 2006, Christian Smith outgrape:
> Make sure you're not using /bin/sh if you can avoid it. Solaris
> /bin/sh is riddled with bugs, to the point of being largely unusable
> for portable scripts.

It's more that it hasn't had any bugfixes since 1980 :)

-- 
`The main high-level difference between Emacs and (say) UNIX, Windows,
 or BeOS... is that Emacs boots quicker.' --- PdS
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug


More information about the GLLUG mailing list