Re:Introducing Dash – Reactive Web Apps for Python
by eriknstr on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:00PM
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> I remember hitting some edge cases where some bespoke shell scripts don't work correctly on Ubuntu because DASH is a "slim" Bash alternative, so it doesn't have all the "bashisms".
People say that, but usually the reason their scripts are not working is that they are using bashisms while retaining
#!/usr/bin/env sh
or
#!/bin/sh
rather than doing as they should when writing shell scripts that are using bash features;
#!/usr/bin/env bash
I think it boils down to a lot of people being unaware of the difference between what is POSIX compliant and what is not, or even that there is such a distinction to be made.
I write most of my shell scripts targeting bash, but I always use the hashbang that invokes to bash, and I also name my scripts like somescript.bash when it's a bash script and somescript.sh when it's POSIX shell.
People say that, but usually the reason their scripts are not working is that they are using bashisms while retaining
or rather than doing as they should when writing shell scripts that are using bash features; I think it boils down to a lot of people being unaware of the difference between what is POSIX compliant and what is not, or even that there is such a distinction to be made.I write most of my shell scripts targeting bash, but I always use the hashbang that invokes to bash, and I also name my scripts like somescript.bash when it's a bash script and somescript.sh when it's POSIX shell.