From: jgd@cix.co.uk   
      
   In article <10hpdgu$1sb$1@reader2.panix.com>,   
   cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:   
      
   > I will grant you that it is annoying to have to assume the subset   
   > of behavior defined by 7th Edition research Unix for "portable"   
   > shell scripts, and increasingly even that is tenuous on Linux systems.   
      
   Ubuntu's replacement of classic sh by the not-entirely-compatible dash   
   was a particular low point there.   
      
   John   
      
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