Re: Non-POSIX shells

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Sander Vesik wrote:

>   Utilities
>      If the behavior required by POSIX.2, POSIX.2a, XPG4, SUS, or
>      SUSv2  conflicts  with  historical Solaris utility behavior,
>      the original Solaris version of the utility is unchanged;  a
>      new version that is standard-conforming has been provided in
>      /usr/xpg4/bin. For applications wishing to take advantage of
>      POSIX.2,  POSIX.2a,  XPG4,  SUS, or SUSv2 features, the PATH
>      (sh or ksh) or path (csh) environment  variables  should  be
>      set  with  /usr/xpg4/bin  preceding any other directories in
>      which  utilities   specified  by  those  specifications  are
>      found, such as /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/ucb, and /usr/ccs/bin.

you realize, of course, that this is useless for shell scripts when you
need to write something in the shebang line.

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