Re: [dev] Shell style guide

From: Antenore Gatta <antenore_AT_simbiosi.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 22:10:27 +0200

On 09/06/16 22:07, Evan Gates wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Levine <__AT_thomaslevine.com> wrote:
>> Adherence to standards and legibility can be problematic if you care
>> about
>> portability to sucky systems and shells. For example, `...` is more
>> widely
>> supported than $(...). But in the case of stali, I suggest that non-suck
>> should
>> take priority over portability.
> I think shell scripts should adhere to the POSIX sh standard. Trying
> to support older shells such as bourne is pointless. If the shell
> doesn't support POSIX sh then we shouldn't care about it.
>
It is indeed, read my previuos answer.
Received on Tue Sep 06 2016 - 22:10:27 CEST