[Gllug] Bourne shell programming

[Christian Smith]

Mike Brodbelt uttered:

> Tethys wrote:
>
>> If you're using a traditional Bourne or Korn[2] shell
>
> Yep - it's in a shell script on a Solaris box, so it's a hoary old
> Bourne shell.


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.

Use /bin/ksh instead.

Christian


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