On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:25:57 +0100, William Boshuck

 wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:02:32AM +0100, Linus Swdlas wrote:

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>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:25:29 +0100, ropers  wrote:

>> feel free to correct me. =)

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> 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:

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> 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. =)
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