If Bash was added to the POSIX standard, they would have to support it.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Paul Gilmartin
<0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 07:21:43 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>>>
>>> o find -i
>>> o find -l
>>> o find -follow  # but breaking symlink cycles.
>>> o find -print0
>>
>>IMO, replace above with "GNU find" or functional equivalent.
>>
> I was kind of hinting at that.
>
>>> o less
>>
>>Yes, I have put in an alias:
>>alias less='vi -R'
>>to "emulate" some of the less functionality.
>>
> Lacking the "F" command to tail a file being actively created.
> Lacking the ability to view stdin.
>
>>> o xterm
>>
>>Why? I don't see the need to run xterm on the z/OS system. I run it on my
>>desktop (well, actually I run Konsole). What would you use it for?
>>
> Convenience.  I have a few scripts on Linux/Solaris (compatible), each
> of which opens an xterm window and issues the "vi [-R]" or "less"
> command on each filename argument.  This lets me open viewers
> or editors in separate windows in a single line command without no
> need to create a terminal, login, cd through a list of directories, and
> view for each.
>
>>> And, not an enhancement, but a bug which IBM support has inexplicably
>>> declared WAD: Fix the EN_US collating sequence!
>>
>>Actually, I expect the PTBs to reject all of this. I still don't get the
>>impression that the IBM people in charge of z/OS really have any true
>>liking for the UNIX portion. And most of them seem to be very much "IP
>>hogs" (that's Intellectual Property and not Internet Protocol). But that
>>may be my freaky FSF persona coming out.
>
> -- gil
>
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