8 Feb
2019
8 Feb
'19
14:58
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 14:25:38 +0100 (CET), Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
No one needs to write sh-compatible code.
I do. But not on Linux My .sh scripts also have to run on ancient AIX and HP-UX, and neither comes with bash. Whenever I need more in a shell-script than old bourne syntax, I turn to perl. I /think/ I never wrote a sh/bash script that even uses $() -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.29 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/