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Re: $(case x in x)...
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Sven Mascheck |
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Re: $(case x in x)... |
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Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:51:36 +0100 |
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Eric Blake in <mailman.21142.1136240191.20277.bug-bash@gnu.org>:
> several platforms, including Solaris' /bin/sh, still do not
> parse ( in case patterns even today, so it is certainly
> not portable if you don't have access to a POSIX shell.
Even if they parsed it, it wouldn't be portable,
because no traditional Bourne shell knows $().
Interestingly even the traditional Almquist shell on
4BSD didn't parse it, although $() was added already.
(mainly a SVR4 sh clone and not to confuse with its
current successors.)
(BTW, I liked your idea of testing the examples and collected
some results on http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/cmd-subst/)
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