No brace expansion for ash?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 12 06:45:33 UTC 2011


On Monday 11 July 2011 10:16, Chris Rees wrote:
> I don't see how adding bashisms one-by-one to ash is going to help anyone.
> 
> If you want to run a script under ash, you should write it properly
> and test it under ash -- which should be faithful enough to the sh
> spec not to tolerate bashisms.

Different situation:

If you already have a ton of bash scripts and you has to adapt
them all for ash, every implemented bashism makes transition
easier.

-- 
vda


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