Variable assignment in sh

Manish Jain bourne.identity at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 1 15:23:14 UTC 2017



On 02/01/2017 08:36 PM, Roger Pate wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Manish Jain
> <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> A point here for bash scripting.
>
> Most often, but not always, if I need something bash has and /bin/sh
> lacks, it's time to write that script in a different language. :P

Generally, FreeBSD community is averse to bash scritpting. But then sh 
lacks array support, which is where bash and zsh do wonderfully well.

Generally again, I am averse to most Linuxisms, but bash is simply way 
too much convenience to ignore.

Regards
Manish Jain


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