Re: shellscript breakage

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:29:30PM +0100, Marcus Comstedt wrote:
> Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> > I am no shell expert, but I don't think $(cmd) is a bashism, it's POSIX
> > sh syntax. Is bourne preferred over POSIX?
>
> It seems like it's preferred by Sun at least; in Solaris, /bin/sh is
> the Bourne shell, and the POSIX shell is hidden away as
> /usr/xpg4/bin/sh. While POSIX sh may be portable in theory, in
> real life anything beginning with #!/bin/sh should conform to Bourne
> shell syntax to be portable.

Yup. We're going for Bourne (/bin/sh), not POSIX.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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