Indeed. fish is not nearly close enough to POSIX compliant for any claim
to be made. E.g., xpra [1] had to be modified to work with fish as a
remote shell (this is one of two reasons I still don't use it as default on
remote systems).
[1]: https://code.google.com/p/partiwm/issues/detail?id=19
(Sorry for the slow response.)
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Martin Bähr <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:24:08PM -0700, ridiculous_fish wrote:
> > fish is mostly POSIX compliant, in the sense of IEEE 1003.1. That is,
> its behavior for commands like echo, test, cd, pwd, etc. hew close to the
> POSIX standard. Scripting is where it really diverges.
> >
> > What I hope to convey is that you won't have to learn a whole new
> command set, because fish uses the familiar POSIX syntax and options. But
> if you think it's confusing or misleading, then I ought to change it.
>
> i believe that those who understand and care about posix would look for
> an exact match.
>
> it is a unix command shell. that it still uses posix commands is kinda a
> given because they are independent from the shell. i think "shell for
> posix systems" is clear enough, although i can imagine fish working just
> fine on non-posix systems.
>
> greetings, martin.
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