On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:19:20AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Stephane Chazelas wrote:
and use $(...) instead of `...`
...
6- use the standard sh syntax instead of trying to rely on any
version and implementation of an unspecified shell like ksh or
bash (and have bash or ksh interpret that syntax if you wish as
those are standard conformant shells).
Funny that you say that, when you previously recommended using the
non-portable $() construct. :-)
[...]
The Bourne shell is a legacy shell, just as the Thomson shell
was before it. You don't need to make scripts portable to that
shell anymore unless you want to support 15 year old systems,