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Re: Shell scripts requiring bash
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, David Miller wrote:
> All of our scripts in the libc tree should be POSIX shell scripts and
> therefore there is no reason to require BASH explicitly anywhere.
I'd tend to agree with that for scripts that get installed - it would be
good for them to work on systems without bash - but for the build and test
process I think it's reasonable to use bash (just like various other GNU
tools are needed).
However, the installed scripts certainly aren't purely POSIX at present;
various do at least explicitly use bash in their #! lines. Many use $""
for i18n, as an example of a bash feature being used.
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