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apenwarr on Feb 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Insufficiently known Posix shell features

I'm pretty sure Solaris is one of those nasty OSes that continues to include a broken /bin/sh for "backwards compatibility." They presumably also have a non-broken shell around somewhere in the standard install. This is why redo goes through extra effort to choose a non-broken shell for running your .do scripts.

mansr on Feb 28, 2011 [–]

Solaris has a POSIX shell in /usr/xpg4/bin/sh. Unfortunately, there is no way to make /bin/sh POSIX-compliant, e.g. by setting an environment variable, a feature many other Unixes have.

apenwarr on Feb 28, 2011 | [–]

Sweet. I've changed redo to try that as one of its possible shells.

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