From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 21 11: 7: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEDD37B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3LI6oM60236; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, olli@secnetix.de Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) In-Reply-To: <200104211527.RAA06452@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <21060.987865322@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <200104211527.RAA06452@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010421110650E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:06:50 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 16 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:27:04 +0200 (CEST) > Not all users use /bin/sh. Scripts needn't be written > in /bin/sh ... Actually, just to jump in and correct this, scripts *should* be written in /bin/sh. That's a defacto Unix standard when it comes to writing shell scripts, just for uniformities sake, and even if you use tcsh or zsh as your personal shell one is always encouraged to write in straight POSIX-conformant /bin/sh for portable scripts. If one also needs to walk entirely outside the painted lines there then that's a good indication that maybe it should be written in perl. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message