[Bulk] Re: Maybe somebody knows a good Bourne Shell book or tutorial?

Jon Radel jon at radel.com
Thu Dec 11 22:35:06 UTC 2014


On 12/11/14, 5:16 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:45:57 -0500, Jon Radel wrote:
>> On 12/11/14, 3:02 PM, Alex Stangl wrote:
>>> Classic Shell Scripting (from O'Reilly) is good.
>>>
>>>
>> I would second this.  It's my current go-to reference when writing a
>> script where
>> I actually care about POSIX and the script being used for more than a
>> day.
> JFTR bashisms aren't POSIX. A bash script using bashisms won't work in
> dash.
>
Since the OP was calling for less bash-centric documentation I'm not quite
sure what your point is supposed to be.  As for me, yes, I'm aware that
non-POSIX extensions are non-POSIX.  :-)

--Jon Radel

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