Hi! On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 18:39:50 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 09:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:11:44PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > Does update-menus really need bash? Why? > > > > pipefail is actually a fairly useful bashism. > > I've attempted to port the many shell scripts I've written over the > years to dash. The three irritants are: > > - pipefail,
<http://cfajohnson.com/shell/cus-faq-2.html#Q11>. > - local variables, dash does have local variables support. > - array variables. > > If dash had those features conversion could almost be mechanical. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
