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Re:Fish shell 2.2 by TorKlingberg on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:47PM (#9874010)
I guess most people cannot be bothered to remember which features are bash specific and which will work in any /bin/sh. I don't think there is such a thing as a generic "shell script", csh has completely different syntax.
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Re:Fish shell 2.2 by stephenr on Sunday July 12, 2015 @05:39PM (#9875088)
The generic variant is called posix compatible or sometimes Bourne compatible.

Lots of people target bash without knowing that some of its non-posix features are not compatible across even minor versions.

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