From: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:57:06 GMT
Subject: Re: /bin/sh portability question
Message-ID: <20050923195706.GV27375@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
In-Reply-To: <43345C17.7060402@zytor.com>

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:48:39PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Peter Eriksen wrote:
> >      path=$(dirname $0)
> > ...
> >      ./git.sh: syntax error at line 4: `path=$' unexpected
> 
> I think $(foo) is required by POSIX.

	I believe that Solaris and others (AIX IIRC) have /bin/sh linked
to /bin/ksh, and it behaves as the POSIX shell when run as /bin/ksh, but
behaves as a much more true-to-bourne shell when run as /bin/sh.

Joel

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