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Re: [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code

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Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date
Jan 29, 2007, 13:17 UTC
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On 1/29/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> Nikolai> We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?
>
> OK, sorry for raising the flag.  I just know that writing portable shell
> is far trickier than writing portable Perl, so I get overly cautious
> on anything that wasn't in Unix V7.

No problem; I wasn't sure on the current requirements myself :-). It's too bad that not all the great stuff one can find in Bash and Zsh were in the original...

  nikolai
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Message 8 of 12 in “Replace perl code with pure shell code”
  1. Replace perl code with pure shell codeSimon 'corecode' Schubert, Jan 29, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2007
  3. Replace perl code with pure shell codeSimon 'corecode' Schubert, Jan 29, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceJan 29, 2007
  5. Randal L. SchwartzJan 29, 2007
  6. Nikolai WeibullJan 29, 2007
  7. Randal L. SchwartzJan 29, 2007
  8. Nikolai WeibullJan 29, 2007
  9. Randal L. SchwartzJan 29, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 30, 2007
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 29, 2007
  12. Randal L. SchwartzJan 29, 2007

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