Bash Quirkiness

[James Wilkinson]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> both $( ) and `` are, as i read it, part of the official Single UNIX 
> Specification (therefore, they're part of POSIX),

Cool, I didn't realise that was on-line. I thought POSIX was still in
mega-bucks to access mood.

Thanks.

> which means that 
> bash pretty much has to keep the older construct, at the very least 
> in POSIX-compliant mode.
> 
> nothing says that bash has to be POSIX-compliant in normal mode, 
> though.  technically, i suppose the bash developers could make any 
> changes they want, and if it broke one of your scripts, well, tough, 
> you don't have a bash-compliant script and you shouldn't be trying to 
> run it with bash.

Sounds a good way to lose users and gain forks to me...

James.

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