Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:59:48 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> To: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981025223022.3709A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810250920150.18224-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
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Just to add a little more heat than light -- pdksh seems to be as close to the "standard Bourne shell" as our current sh (or any other Bourne/Korn/POSIX shell, for that matter.) I like the file completion for interactive use, but I still write scripts to the lowest common denominator because I've burned myself too many times. I have had some difficulty with functions, pdksh seems to differ in the "name ()" syntax and the "function name" syntax doesn't necessarily behave the same as other Korn shell implementations. Of course, I rarely use functions or Korn shell peculiarities, so you can write that off as pilot error. Other than that, I've not seen any incompatibilities with our current Bourne shell scripts. -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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