> That being said, in the past when I have needed to > manage Solaris, > HP-UX, and Linux, I found bash to be the right > balance of features and > compatibility. sh on Solaris had shortcomings like > you describe, ksh > on Linux was really pdksh and failed in strange ways.
I've read this kind of stuff before, and it makes me scratch my head. It would really interest me to know what kind of Voodoo-hoodoo-what-you-don't-dare-do-people people do in their ksh scripts that they fail in strange and unexpected ways. I've written a number of ksh scripts over the years with portability in mind, and they've run on IRIX, HP-UX and Solaris without any problems, out of the box. This message posted from opensolaris.org
