[Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuilds in python ?

Joel J. Adamson adamsonj at email.unc.edu
Sat May 9 01:28:14 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Joel" == Joel J Adamson <" <adamsonj at email.unc.edu>> writes:

>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Hanson <erik at slackbuilds.org> writes:
    >> On May 08, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Joel J. Adamson wrote:
    >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-12-11 10:45 sh -> bash
    >>> 
    >>> So you can use any bash-specific features with #!/bin/sh.  These
    >>> will

    >> This isn't necessarily true, bash behaves differently
    >> ("historically") when invoked as "sh". There are details in
    >> bash(1) under Invocation.

    > I discovered that myself this afternoon while writing a script :)

That being said, Xavier's question was really about functions: since
functions are part of the POSIX standard, can we really consider them
"bash-isms?"

Joel
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