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FYI: Shell FAQs
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
FYI: Shell FAQs |
Date: |
26 Mar 2002 10:31:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
I'm flushing messages I kept because they contained interesting
information. This is from:
| From: Lars Hecking <address@hidden>
| Subject: Re: Absolute srcdir
| To: address@hidden, address@hidden
| X-Sent: 1 year, 51 weeks, 5 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes, 13 seconds ago
| Resent-From: address@hidden
|
| Lars J. Aas writes:
| > BTW, is anyone cataloguing these kinds of bourne shell bugs/anomalies
| > somewhere? Seems like something like that would be a *very* useful resource
| > for portable shell script programmers...
| >
| > Lars J
|
| There is a Unix shell FAQ out there, but the document I have here
| is probably way outdated. It references
| ftp://alf.uib.no/pub/lpf/misc/shell-100.BetaA.Z (129.177.30.3).
|
| It doesn't cover bugs. But try http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/
|
| Lars H
:)
Index: ChangeLog
from Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.604
diff -u -u -r1.604 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 26 Mar 2002 09:19:51 -0000 1.604
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 26 Mar 2002 09:31:15 -0000
@@ -8027,6 +8027,9 @@
Some of these external utilities have a portable subset of features; see
@ref{Limitations of Usual Tools}.
+There are other sources of documentation about shells. See for instance
address@hidden://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/, the Shell FAQs}.
+
@menu
* Shellology:: A zoology of shells
* Here-Documents:: Quirks and tricks
@@ -8043,10 +8046,12 @@
@node Shellology
@section Shellology
-There are several families of shells, most prominently the Bourne
-family and the C shell family which are deeply incompatible. If you
-want to write portable shell scripts, avoid members of the C shell
-family.
+There are several families of shells, most prominently the Bourne family
+and the C shell family which are deeply incompatible. If you want to
+write portable shell scripts, avoid members of the C shell family. The
address@hidden://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/, the
+Shell difference FAQ} includes a small history of Unix shells, and a
+comparison between several of them.
Below we describe some of the members of the Bourne shell family.
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