[tz] [PATCH 3/3] tzselect: use /bin/sh by default

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Sat Oct 27 22:48:46 UTC 2012


On Oct 27, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Richard Johnson <rjohnson+tz at ucar.edu> wrote:

> We thus prefer standard /bin/sh use via the likes of ksh instead in our
> scripts.

Unfortunately, tzselect isn't a standard /bin/sh script; to quote an earlier message:

> The "select" builtin is not POSIX.

and the script uses "select", so, whilst it can be a /bin/ksh script or a /bin/bash script, it would have to be changed to be a /bin/sh script.



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