No brace expansion for ash?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:23, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:19, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>>  http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html#standards says:
>>  "portability to dozens of platforms is only interesting in terms of
>> offering a restricted feature set that works everywhere, not growing dozens
>> of platform-specific extensions."
>>
>>  Bashisms are arguably Linux-specific extensions to Single Unix, don't
>> you think ? ;)
>
> no, not even close.  i dont know why people think "bash == Linux", but
> it doesnt.  it is actively used on many many more systems than just
> Linux, and i guess i need to point out the fact that bash is far older
> than Linux.

along these lines, i'm pretty sure the bash maintainer runs OS X as
his main desktop / development system.  when people report bugs, he
often shows how it's working for him under OS X.  that's decidedly
un-Linux-y.
-mike