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Re: Fix `set -o posix' again


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Fix `set -o posix' again
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:06:03 +0000

> Clever.  Would it not be easier thus:
> 
> case "`set -o 2>/dev/null`" in
> *"posix "* ) set -o posix ;;
> esac

The first "" are redundant, and you can't be sure whether a space or a
tab appears as the whitespace in the selection pattern.  But how
likely are we to have a shell that has an option that has the substring
"posix", without also supporting the actual option "posix"?  Why not:

case `set -o 2>/dev/null` in
  *posix*) set -o posix ;;
esac

--
Eric Blake




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