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Re:Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes by JdeBP on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:07AM (#24834940)
Standardization does not work like this. Usually the consideration is that the standard standardizes the greatest common subset, subject to some give and take, of available implementations, which at that time included more than the Korn shell.

There's an entire rationale that accompanies the the Single Unix Specification, whose section on the shell command language quite clearly explains the basis for the standard. Talking about how POSIX based things on the Korn shell is to not even have read the very first sentence of that rationale section.

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Re:Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes by chasil on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:12AM (#24837490)
The first sentence of the standard is:

"This chapter contains the definition of the Shell Command Language."

I'm not familiar with the advocacy. I'm not sure that I would see much value to it.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xc...

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Re:Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes by JdeBP on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:21PM (#24908908)
I clearly wrote "the very first sentence of that rationale section". Even though you've erroneously picked the standard from 2004 instead of the current edition, and then erroneously didn't even look at the rationale, the first sentence of that section of that old edition's rationale is the same.
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