On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:10:21PM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> [...] note that the ${a#b} and ${a%b} family of parameter expressions
> is nonportable. These are commonly accepted bashisms [...]
>
wrong.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
section 2.6.2
or to quote
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.67/html_node/Shell-Substitutions.html#Shell-Substitutions
"Posix requires support for these usages, but they do not work with many
traditional shells, e.g., Solaris 10 /bin/sh."
iow, throwing around "bashism" is just FUD.
if mutts wants to keep supporting utterly retarded systems from the last
millenium that's fine with me, but get your facts straight.
