Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20220701231439.egWzS%steffen@xxxxxxxxxx>: .. |While doing so i encountered diverging behaviour in between |shells, and a bug in dash (and a memory failure in NetBSD 9 ksh). Nonsense. dash simply does not support pre/postfix operators. Sorry for the noise. ... |NetBSD n-0900 9.0 NetBSD 9.0 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Feb 14 00:06:28 UTC \ |2020 mkrepro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC \ |amd64 | |#?0|n-0900:steffen$ ksh -c '(i=10; echo $((++-+++i)))' |Memory fault ... Ok, maybe a bug report over there. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)