Bash shell support?
Paul Fox
pgf at brightstareng.com
Sat Aug 26 21:18:09 UTC 2006
> > The whole language can really be brain-bending. At least if you have to
> > read scripts from other people.
>
> Anybody can write code. The good ones are the ones who can _read_ code.
corollary: "The best ones are the ones who can write readable code."
> > It should be no problem to find a few more elaborate shell script
> > examples. There are even quite a few more complex scripts which are ash
> > compatible.
i've been scripting in ash for a year or two now, and have been surprised
at how seldom i want or need to do something that could be done in bash
but not in ash. some of the shopt options, and arrays -- those are the
big ones. otoh, it's been teaching me how to do more with less. :-)
paul
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