March 2011
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Insufficiently known POSIX shell features →
I’ve seen several articles in the past with titles like “Top 10 things you didn’t know about bash programming.” These articles are disappointing on two levels: first of all, the tricks are almost always things I already knew. And secondly, if you want to write portable programs, you can’t depend on bash features (not every platform has bash!). POSIX-like shells,...