From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aragon Gouveia Subject: setvar MIA? Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:54:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4D2C7D44.1060904@phat.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from decoder.geek.sh ([196.36.198.81]:62774 "EHLO mail.geek.sh" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756152Ab1AKQFQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:05:16 -0500 Received: from igor.geek.sh (196-209-37-6.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.209.37.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.geek.sh (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 579233B2D4 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:54:45 +0200 (SAST) Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: dash@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm working on making a number of shell scripts cross compatible between FreeBSD and Linux, but one thorn in my side has been dash's lack of a setvar builtin. Does anyone know if this is a work in progress, or a decidedly void feature in dash? Thanks, Aragon