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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:17:43 +0100
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On 1/29/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> Nikolai> We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?
>
> OK, sorry for raising the flag.  I just know that writing portable shell
> is far trickier than writing portable Perl, so I get overly cautious
> on anything that wasn't in Unix V7.

No problem; I wasn't sure on the current requirements myself :-).
It's too bad that not all the great stuff one can find in Bash and Zsh
were in the original...

  nikolai