Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:30:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dan@freebsddiary.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <199907282330.QAA19144@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199907280837.UAA63207@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> from "Dan Langille" at Jul 28, 99 08:37:46 pm
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> > Speaking for myself, it's because people who don't know better
> > depend upon its features, rendering shell scripts non-portable.
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> > It's a hellish web of interdependency, which could have been
> > avoided, had no one installed bash.
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> Ummmm, might I introduce you to:
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> http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/shell.htm
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> You'll see that the above is not correct.
I understand that the ports hierarchy has handled most of this
for FreeBSD (except updating /etc/shells, like it should), but
I'm complaining about script portability, and that means that
at least one of the machines involved isn't FreeBSD (or Linux,
to forestall anyone who wants to flame me on that particular
technicality).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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