Re: for; do; done regression ?

[Jan Schampera]

Marc Herbert wrote:

> seq is not exactly Linux-only but GNU-only.
>
> GNU-specific versus bash-specific, which is worse? I'd say it
> depends... on which mailing-list you post :-)

I'd say a script interpreted by the GNU shell must not rely blindly on 
GNU tools being installed or on running on a GNU OS. It can, however, 
rely on Bash features, of course.

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