On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:25:57 +0100, William Boshuck
<boshuk@math.mcgill.ca> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:02:32AM +0100, Linus Swdlas wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:25:29 +0100, ropers <ropers@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> 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. ;)


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>> 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. =)


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