Eric Blake in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > several platforms, including Solaris' /bin/sh, still do not > parse ( in case patterns even today, so it is certainly > not portable if you don't have access to a POSIX shell.
Even if they parsed it, it wouldn't be portable, because no traditional Bourne shell knows $(). Interestingly even the traditional Almquist shell on 4BSD didn't parse it, although $() was added already. (mainly a SVR4 sh clone and not to confuse with its current successors.) (BTW, I liked your idea of testing the examples and collected some results on http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/cmd-subst/) -- [i'm trying the list after having problems with the gateway] _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
