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Subject: RE: ash does not understand '~'
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:36:54 +0200
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Corinna Vinschen wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 1:04 PM:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:37:10PM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote:
>> BTW: It does also not know the "[ ]" syntax for a built-in test, you
>> always have to use "test": 
>> 
>> if test -f /etc/hosts; then
>> 	echo "/etc/hosts exist!"
>> fi
> 
> Beep.  Wrong.  It knows [ ]
> 
> Corinna
> 
>> and you cannot combine export with an assignment, you have to write
>> separate statements: 
>> 
>> VARIABLE=test
>> export VARIABLE
> 
> Beep.  Wrong, too.  export var=value is a vaild bourne shell syntax.
> 
> Corinna

Did that change at some point? I remember having really big problems writing scripts running on a on Solaris, Linux and Cygwin some years ago <g> and IIRC it was basically because of ash at that time ...

Regards,
Jörg

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