Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:51:19 -0500 From: "Mark Felder" <feld@feld.me> To: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: posix sh problem Message-ID: <op.wu0ontam34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net> In-Reply-To: <515D764D.1040604@sneakertech.com> References: <op.wu0nsgsf34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net> <515D764D.1040604@sneakertech.com>
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On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:47:09 -0500, Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> wrote: >> I'd really like to >> have this working cleanly on FreeBSD without requiring any funky shells > > Define "funky shell". Does it have to be straight up plain sh? Can it > use csh or tcsh syntax? Does bash count as 'funky'? > Any shells not in the FreeBSD base system, basically. I don't want this script to stop working because someone somehow broke bash or zsh and nobody noticed because nobody ever uses it. > >> or using any temporary files. > > Do you mean "manually created temp files"? because some of the different > ways of doing process substitution and redirection will automatically > create temp files for you in the background and fail on an unwritable > filesystem. > Yes, I mean manually created temp files. It looks pretty ugly to > /tmp/foo and read from it a line later :)
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