[ale] Shell Scripting for Compatiblity

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

Aaron,

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 09:43, aaron wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations on which (mostly compatible) Unix shells I 
> should also consider targeting and testing this with. It would also be 
> helpful to hear about any general compatibility syntax differences to watch 
> for (along the lines of a freqently misspelled words list).

	As you may know, bash stands for the "Bourne Again SHell".  It was
intended to be as backward compatible with sh as possible (Steven Bourne
wrote the original sh).  As long as you're not using any of the bash
extensions, then any "compatible" sh will work.  The caveat is: telling
whether or not any given feature is original or new.  

	If you wouldn't mind posting the source, I could probably tell you if I
spot anything.  Others could probably tell also.

	Just so you know: I started using UNIX and the shell when "test" was a
seperate program, and "[" was a hard link to "test" ;-).

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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