7 Jan
2020
7 Jan
'20
3:55 a.m.
On 1/6/20 4:29 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Portability to what? The POSIX $((...)) arithmetic expansion is widely
implemented and near-universally available.
Some of the other things are more esoteric, but you should be able to
increase your expectation to POSIX features and still be sufficiently
portable.
--
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Would anyone who uses Bash regularly, both
interactively and
for scripting, really want to go back to using the V7 sh
for production work?
I have never used all the fancy stuff in BASH such as the arithmetic
functions; I still use "expr" etc for portability.