Bash Quirkiness

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Frank Tanner III wrote:

> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
>
> That's the best BASH site I know if.

two comments:

   first, if you just want a zillion examples of scripts (shell, perl, 
etc.), check out cameron simpson's repo at 
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css.  chances are, if you're trying 
to write a script, he's got something that's already close to it.

   and second, you might consider avoiding bash-specific extensions and 
stick as closely as possible to POSIX-compliant shell features, to 
make sure your scripts are as universally portable as possible.

rday

p.s.  from memory, you can get POSIX behaviour from bash with either 
of:

   1) using "bash --posix"
   2) just calling it by the name "sh"

but i'd check the docs to be sure.