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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:35:06 -0400
From: Glenn Spell <glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us>
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Subject: Re: "sed" bug?
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In-Reply-To: <m10ufIo-007vP6C@light.lbin.com>; from "itz@lbin.com" on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 09:46AM
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On 17 Jun 1999 at 9:46AM (-0700) itz AT lbin DOT com wrote:

> Is ash supposed to be a full implementation os the POSIX shell?

Not yet. On some platforms ash is in the process of being changed to
conform with the POSIX.2 specification.

> If not, you'll always run into scripts that are hash-banged with
> #!/bin/sh but contain constructs ash won't understand.

I've read that many Linux packages provide scripts hash-banged with
"#!/bin/sh" that depend on "bashisms"... as if bash was some sort of
standard.  That would present problems not only for ash but for any
POSIX shell as well.

-glenn

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