#!/bin/bash

[Nerijus Baliunas]

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:10:51 +0000 Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

> I entirely agree with you. I will have to go through the scripts that  
> have this and try to check that they don't have any bash-isms that I  
> know of. The only one that springs to mind is
> 	export VARIABLE=value
> which I will need to change to
> 	VARIABLE=value
> 	export VARIABLE
> 
> What else should I be looking for? I tend to write for whatever  
> version of sh happens to be on the system I'm writing on at the time.  
> Bad practice, I know :-(

The easiest thing would be to release a new beta version with /bin/sh
everywhere and let the users test it :)

Regards,
Nerijus

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