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> but doing that doesn't guarantee shell scripts will work. How so? Can you give an example that should work according to the POSIX spec but doesn’t in a POSI
by echoangle 3mo ago
> but doing that doesn't guarantee shell scripts will work.
How so?
Can you give an example that should work according to the POSIX spec but doesn’t in a POSIX compliant shell?
The example in the post is just some behavior the POSIX spec doesn’t specify, so obviously you wouldn’t be allowed to do that when targeting POSIX.
- rascul 3mo agoNot exactly what you asked for, but there's ambiguity in the spec leading to different implementations. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11376975/is-there-a-minimally-posix-2-compliant-shell/16376043#16376043 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11376975/is-there-a-mini...