autoconf-patches
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

FYI: Shell FAQs


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: FYI: Shell FAQs
Date: 26 Mar 2002 10:31:38 +0100
User-agent: 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|  is probably way outdated.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.
 



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]