Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:21:20 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> To: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> Cc: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810250920150.18224-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <362B74B6.B9B256B4@gorean.org>
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Why don't we just use pdksh? It's even more compact than our current Bourne/partially-Korn shell, and has lots of great Korn shell features everyone loves but sh doesn't have. Cheers, Brian Feldman On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Studded wrote: > "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" wrote: > > > > Why doesn't ~ expansion work in the following case: > > > > export GLORB=~ > > > > as it does in > > > > GLORB=~; export GLORB > > I've seen a couple of people complain about 'export foo=bar' causing > problems in our implementation of sh. I haven't looked at why it's a > problem but if it's any comfort, yes, it seems to be a bug. I've gotten > into the habit of using 'foo=bar; export foo' when using sh anyway since > it's more portable. > > Doug > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > > Go PADRES! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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