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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: ash does not understand '~'
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:35:40 -0700
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:19:36PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the following shell script does not work at least with ash-20031007-1 
>> although I don't see any reason why this should not be a valid 
>> syntax. If you use
>
> The reason is, '~' is an extension to the bourne shell syntax, first 
> defined in csh or tcsh, AFAIK. ash is a pure bourne shell with next to 
> no extensions. Using '~' in a shell script is non-portable.

Non-protable to such "OSes" that don't have a more modern shell then 
Bourne/Ash I guess. Are there any "OSes" that don't support shells like 
csh, tcsh, ksh, bash?



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