Hi Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Bob, > > * Bob Proulx wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:35:23PM CEST: > > > > If you consider POSIX systems as being portable enough then using > > the [:space:] character class should work pretty well. > > Thanks to Mr. Solaris, no, I don't consider that portable enough. ;-)
Hmm... Well there is always: test -d /usr/XPG4/bin && PATH=/usr/XPG4/bin:$PATH That might satisfy Mr. Solaris in this case. It is a shame that he so obstinately refuses to become more standard. Sigh. Bob
