Re: [389-devel] portability issue: scripts expecting /bin/sh to be bash

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On 02/24/2014 03:16 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
	Hi

   I noticed that some shell scripts have bashisms in them, on Debian and
it's derivatives /bin/sh is dash. A quick list of scripts shipped by
389-ds-base having this issue:

monitor
ldif2db
ldif2ldap
db2bak
vlvindex
dn2rdn
restoreconfig
saveconfig
upgradedb
suffix2instance
dbverify

but since I just ran all the scripts without any options, there might be
others too that fail with "unexpected operator" errors etc when ran in a
real environment. So maybe change all of them to use /bin/bash or
migrate them to be posix compatible (and somehow test new ones for
compliance)?


I think they should be changed to be plain old posix bourne shell compatible - lowest common denominator. There's no reason to use bash specific features.

https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47511
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