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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (Jeff "Obik" Epler)
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Zsh as /bin/sh on Linux?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:32:04 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199601191132.MAA10626@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9601182122.AA23445@herbie.unl.edu> from "Jeff "Obik" Epler" at Jan 18, 96 03:22:36 pm

> A bigger problem (IMO) than worrying about odd sh compatibilities when
> using (trying to use) zsh as /bin/sh under Linux, is all the
> dependancies on Bash featurisms, since bash is the /bin/sh on most
> Linux systems.

Zsh know the extra features that sh scripts under Linux tends to use.  I thing
these are mostly the ${...%...} type substitutions.  I think that this
substitution syntax is part of the POSIX shell specification.  If one wants to
use a lightweight replacement for bash she may also try pdksh which tries to
be posix conformant and know almost everything that bash knows and it is even
faster than that.

Cheers,

Zoltan


  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-01-19 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-01-18 19:24 Steven L Baur
1996-01-18 20:18 ` Christopher White
1996-01-18 20:38   ` Jari Kokko
1996-01-18 20:41   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-01-18 21:22 ` Jeff "Obik" Epler
1996-01-18 21:45   ` Steven L Baur
1996-01-19 11:32   ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1996-01-19  2:51 ` Tim Pickett
1996-01-19 11:08   ` Zoltan Hidvegi

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