On Nov 12, 2007 7:21 PM, Linus Swdlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:25:57 +0100, William Boshuck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:02:32AM +0100, Linus Swdlas wrote: > >> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:25:29 +0100, ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> feel free to correct me. =) > > > > This kind of parameter substitution is in the POSIX 1 specification > > for sh. See the parameters section of the man page for sh(1). > I stand corrected. ;) > > > >> But I wouldn't, I'd let bash do it: > > > > Probably better to use sh, or ksh, since they > > are in OpenBSD by default, and are more than > > up to the task. > > OpenBSD's ksh is great, I've never bothered to check if it's > available for Solaris for example. I've just assumed that it's > not, and bash is. And I use Linux too, so, I personally prefer > bash. =) > Though in this case I agree with you, at least if he doesn't > already have bash installed. =)
These may be of interest: http://www.wormhole.hu/~ice/ksh/ http://www.mirbsd.org/?mksh DS
