From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NNE35-0007pP-Sj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DECCE062B; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DA8E062B for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16] helo=sep.dynalias.net) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNE2U-0003jj-Uc for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:21:15 -0500 Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EFB4864B045; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:25:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:25:16 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway. Message-ID: <20091222232516.GC29895@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> <6155bd0861f00c277e49c2b0b8028c17@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6155bd0861f00c277e49c2b0b8028c17@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: dfd3bfdd-1bb1-4a40-bf32-93c3e68327cc X-Archives-Hash: c7101d2473433128c256d94e34560f86 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:34:34AM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: > The advanced bash scripting guide will be equally valid nowadays as it was > when it was first written. A few minor edges have changed in bash in the > latest times, but you are unlikely to get touched by these unless you are > using some rare feature. After all, bash is compatible with the original > bourne shell to a big extent, and that part of its behavior never changes. Really? I had quite a few scripts die on me in the Bash 3.1-3.2 change. One of the problems is complained about enough that they now introduced a compatibility level (item l on the ChangeLog http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/NEWS ) But given that the ABS was last updated this year, I should say anything in it is up-to-date enough. W -- You're not paranoid. The world _IS_ fucked. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1110 days, 22:12