Re: 3. Basic Shell Features versus POSIX features

2009-11-26 Thread Chet Ramey
Marc Herbert wrote: > Hi, > > I more or less assumed that section "3. Basic Shell Features" is all > POSIX, in contrast to section "6. Bash Features" which starts like this: > "This section 6 describes features unique to Bash." Not really. The basic shell features are just that: the programming

3. Basic Shell Features versus POSIX features

2009-11-26 Thread Marc Herbert
Hi, I more or less assumed that section "3. Basic Shell Features" is all POSIX, in contrast to section "6. Bash Features" which starts like this: "This section 6 describes features unique to Bash." I think I was wrong. There seems to be at least two non-POSIX features documented in the "Basic" s