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From: loverso@coltsfoot.osf.org (John Robert LoVerso)
Subject: Re: [BSD4.3reno] /bin/sh problem?
Message-ID: <1992Nov5.135149.14437@osf.org>
Summary: BSD /bin/sh is v7 sh
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References: <1d9m3vINN8nh@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:51:49 GMT
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In article <1d9m3vINN8nh@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dale Harris) writes:
|> Has anyone ever tried doing a function or sub-routine in a shell script
|> in BSD4.3 or BSD4.4, it doesn't seem to want to work, and it works on
|> several other flavors of Unix.
BSD has traditionally distributed the good, old Bourne shell from V7. It
predates the additions of functions and a few other things (${...:...}).
Starting with BNR2, they've replaced the V7 shell (AT&T copyright, you know)
with ash, Almquist's shell-a-like, touting most of the new (now POSIX-required)
features. It has functions.
Another approach is to use GNU's bash.
John