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Re:Unix Wildcards Gone Wild by pmahoney on Sunday August 17, 2014 @10:31PM (#8191223)
> portably in shell scripts (spoiler: it's hard)

At what point do you give up and, if you must have portability, bootstrap a saner environment?

Are there many options in this area? Assume perl is available? Use autoconf-like shell script compiler? Starting with Lua (which I hope/assume can build anywhere, though I know it's missing lots of functionality out of the box)?

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Re:Unix Wildcards Gone Wild by AceJohnny2 on Monday August 18, 2014 @03:37PM (#8194186)
I'm lucky not to have to worry about this, but I figured that having Perl is a safe assumption for desktop and server Unix systems.

Not embedded devices, but I guess those are different enough that you're probably not targetting them for portable scripts. Oh no, have I contradicted myself? :)

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