> so why don't you use PDKSH (/bin/ksh) or pkgsrc's ast-ksh instead of ash > (/bin/sh) ? Even pkgsrc's GNU Bash would do. Err, what? pdksh performs worse that ash. bash surely performs worse. Both fork.
Overall, I don't write for a specific shell, I write for POSIX shells. While that particular script (part of a much lager system) performs best with ksh93, other parts may perform best with another shell. I won't switch shells from component to component. > I do x=`command` which is almost the same as $(command), using any KSH or > BASH as interpreter. Backticks are POSIX, too. A shell that will fork with $(...) will certainly fork with `...`, too. > I don't really care about POSIX here as KSH and BASH syntax is much more > powerful. It's fine if you don't care about POSIX.
