Aaron Smith wrote: > > this seems undesirable to me, since using it immediately makes your shell > scripts nonportable. i liked the ls -t suggestion though.
Portability is a Good Thing, but I write a lot of one-off scripts in which portability isn't an issue. Also, just because one uses standard shell commands is no guarantee of portability, as a shell script can invoke arbitrary programs, which may or may not be present or compatible across different hosts. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: g...@cequrux.com Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: http://www.cequrux.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
