bug#12339: [PATCH] rm: avoid bogus diagnostic for a slash-decorated symlink-to-dir

[Paul Eggert]

On 09/05/2012 07:51 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
>> Just start the script with "#!/bin/sh", as usual.
>> When invoked that way, Bash and other shells are POSIX-compliant
>> in this area.

> To what level of posix...

To all the levels that are relevant for this discussion.

In practice, people use "#!/bin/sh" and it works pretty well
to avoid compatibility issues like this.  It's not perfect
for all POSIX issues, but you were asking for a solution to
a particular problem, and this should solve your problem.