Is there a reason why bash doesn't treat == as an illegal test operator when running in POSIX mode?
This is problematic because use of test == in scripts that should be POSIX isn't getting caught when I run them under bash's POSIX mode. The scripts then fail when run under dash which seems to be stricter about this. I have reconfigured my system's default /bin/sh back to /bin/dash to ensure better POSIX compliance, but it would be nice if I didn't have to do that. I am running Ubuntu's distribution of bash, per: jseymour@ubuntu:~/tracked/git$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-41-generic #88-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 29 13:10:32 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux jseymour@ubuntu:~/tracked/git$ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. jon.
