No brace expansion for ash?
Eric Martin
eric.martin at gmx.net
Sat Jul 9 12:31:26 UTC 2011
> Every bashism imported not only bloats the shell, but also breaks its
> compatibilty, and stops bashisms being detected, so these non-portably
> written scripts error out in Solaris, FreeBSD and most Debians.
So why is this bashism integrated in hush if it "bloats the shell" ???
> The real pity is people who write bash scripts starting #!/bin/sh, and
> then complain that sh isn't bash. It isn't!
Yes i totally agree, but why don't integrate this bashism in
ASH_BASH_COMPAT ?
It doesn't bloat the shell if you don't want it.
Eric
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