#!/bin/bash

[Spicer, Kevin]

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 :-(

I always get bitten by 

if [ "X$something" == "something" ]; then

which works fine on bash, but sh only wants a single =


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