From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 12 4:18:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0CF155DA for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 04:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA10290; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:15:30 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 10220; Thu Aug 12 13:14:44 1999 Message-ID: <37B2ACE8.D263C8E7@cdsec.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:15:52 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New tests for test(1) References: <37B2917A.6CBBC950@cdsec.com> <19990812040148.A13484@gelatinous.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaron Smith wrote: > > this seems undesirable to me, since using it immediately makes your shell > scripts nonportable. i liked the ls -t suggestion though. Portability is a Good Thing, but I write a lot of one-off scripts in which portability isn't an issue. Also, just because one uses standard shell commands is no guarantee of portability, as a shell script can invoke arbitrary programs, which may or may not be present or compatible across different hosts. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: http://www.cequrux.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message