On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Joerg Pernfuss wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100
Karol Kwiatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it
doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer
5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with Bell Labs ancestors).
Not sure what I'm missing, is FreeBSD's /bin/sh shell not "true"
Bourne Shell? Was it extended in some way from traditional one?
FreeBSD /bin/sh is actually an ash, which roughly translates into
a POSIX shell with a few additions that do not break compatibility.
At least that is how I understood it.
Joerg
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Unfortunately the target system (now) for the documentation is suse Linux, and
I don't have any control over what the company chooses for its Unix OS in the
future. So to reduce rewriting the documentation in the future I thought it'd
be better to seek out the common denominator in Unix shells.
Besides, if people are smart enough (and most people are here), they can
translate $HOME to ~ :).
-Garrett
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