OT: posix sh problem

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:47:09 -0500, Quartz <quartz at sneakertech.com> wrote:

>> I'd really like to
>> have this working cleanly on FreeBSD without requiring any funky shells
>
> Define "funky shell". Does it have to be straight up plain sh? Can it  
> use csh or tcsh syntax? Does bash count as 'funky'?
>

Any shells not in the FreeBSD base system, basically. I don't want this  
script to stop working because someone somehow broke bash or zsh and  
nobody noticed because nobody ever uses it.

>
>> or using any temporary files.
>
> Do you mean "manually created temp files"? because some of the different  
> ways of doing process substitution and redirection will automatically  
> create temp files for you in the background and fail on an unwritable  
> filesystem.
>

Yes, I mean manually created temp files. It looks pretty ugly to >  
/tmp/foo and read from it a line later :)