From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:20:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects
Message-ID: <E1EVKmt-0003xn-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510270801560.4664@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh - there's another similarity between $(..) and $((..)). They're both 
> POSIX 1003.2 standard features, so any "modern" shell should support them. 
> Although in practice I don't know if that means anything else than ksh 
> (where both syntaxes came from, actually).

There is also dash (http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/).
It complies with POSIX, is less than half the size of pdksh (83960 bytes
currently on i386), and is faster than pdksh.

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