No brace expansion for ash?
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 8 08:55:43 UTC 2011
On Thursday 07 July 2011 22:43, Eric Martin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed busybox's ash to test it as a viable alternative to
> bash and i discovered that it doesn't interpret brace expansion as the
> tiny hush does...
>
> When do you plan to resolve this little shameful problem?
No one is currently working on this particular problem
(as far as I know).
Brace expansion is not mandated by any standard, it's a bashism,
which is why it wasn't implemented in ash, I guess.
> So what the best alternative to bash in busybox? ash or hush?
It depends on your needs. Both don't support quite a number
of bash extensions, though...
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