Re: posix vs default mode nonsense

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/25/24 7:41 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:30 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > but that won't help with the portability problems.
>
> You can't even use arrays or [[ ... ]] and be portable, right? 

Well, it's tough to be portable to shells that don't implement those.

> It
> might be easier to install bash on whatever it is at that point.

If you want to use the features bash has, yes, it's easier to use bash.


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