On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:41:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > If bash is in posix mode (including "bash --posix" and being invoked as > > "bin/sh"), it will set POSIXLY_CORRECT (but not export it). Similarly, > > if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in the outer environment, it will act more > > like sh. So maybe that would be a better test. > > Yes, but the check needs to be careful to make sure the shell that is > running the check is indeed bash, so that it will explicitly exec bash for > somebody who is running dash but exports POSIXLY_CORRECT to make GNU > programs (other than bash) behave more standard compliant way. Sorry, I thought that was obvious. Yes, this: > In other words, > > if test -n "$POSIXLY_CORRECT" && test -n "$BASH" > then > : we are running bash under posix mode > elif ... > > or somesuch. is what I meant. Replace the "does it end in /bash" bit with "POSIXLY_CORRECT" but, keep the $BASH check. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html