On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:19:06PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17.15, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > Make sure you use only POSIX features when doing this. I think > > "grep -o" is a GNU extension, FreeBSD doesn't have it for example. > > Doesn't the 'only POSIX' apply to the shell code only? At least, shouldn't > it be judged on a per-tool basis? While awk is (was?) usually mawk on > Debian, and not gawk, I don't think anybody uses a BSD grep on their Debian > system. Please don't standardise on a minimal future set only for the > corner case that somebody cripples his system beyond every reassonable > limit. > > The 'POSIX shell' rule is here for a reason: there are people with /bin/sh > being not bash. For other tools, this rule can be relaxed, imho.
Well, it's helpful when you might want to replace grep etc with its busybox counterparts; for instance, busybox grep doesn't support -o. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
