On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Erik Slagter wrote:
> > grin...I missed his bashism's. Actually the heinous bash stuff (as far
> > as bourne shell is concered) is the arrays as in the lines:
> >
> > while read -a line; do
> > echo ${line[$platform_idx]} | egrep $egrep_flags "^$platform$|^$platform,|,$platform,|,$platform$"
> >
> > The "read -a" is reading into a line, and "${line[$platform_idx]}" is
> > accessing an elemnt of the array. Since arrays don't exist in bourne
> > shell which is going to be the default shell on Solaris, that would be
> > another explanation of the error (unless of course he was doing
> > "-p /usr/bin/bash" or something like it).
>
> Aaarggghhh. This really sux, although I have a slightly different point
> of view on this. Some systems are still shipped with the plain Bourne
> shell (which has been around since 1970 and hasn't had much alterations
> since then). It's like volunteerly driving a car from 1970 or using
> command.com. If a manufacturer of Unix systems is really serious about
> using a shell, it should ship at least bash or even better, zsh (which
> incorporates the functionality of sh, ksh, bash and some of (t)csh).
> Apparently both HP and Sun think you should use only point-and-click
> interfaces...
>
Newer versions of Solaris ship with bash, but scriptlets by default use
"/bin/sh". On a linux box this is usually a symlink to bash. On a Sun
box its the statically linked bourne shell.
cheers...james
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