Re:Two simple tricks for better shell script error handling
by KC8ZKF on Monday April 05, 2010 @11:37AM
(#1242124)
When invoked as sh, Bash enters POSIX mode after reading the startup files.
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Re:Two simple tricks for better shell script error handling
by imurray on Monday April 05, 2010 @01:21PM
(#1242403)
When invoked that way it still supports more than /bin/dash on my system:
% ln -s /bin/bash sh
% ./sh
sh-3.2$ echo {1..10}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
sh-3.2$ exit
% dash
$ echo {1..10}
{1..10}
where dash is supposed to be POSIX compliant.