Martin Wheatley wrote: > You also asked ... > > > Is there an example of > > another command shell which handles this situation in a different and > > possibly better way? > > /bin/sh handles the situation correctly (in our opinion)
On my system /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash and behaves similarly. But on other systems it may be a symlink to other shells or may be a native posix shell implementation. Or on some systems trying to be antiquated it may be a classic Bourne shell. Many posix shell implementations are based upon the AT&T ksh. On the systems I tested they all behaved like bash does here. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
