[tz] [PATCH 1/4] tzselect: Replace Korn/Bash-only select construct.

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sun Oct 6 20:58:21 UTC 2013


On Oct 6, 10:00pm, apb at cequrux.com (Alan Barrett) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [tz] [PATCH 1/4] tzselect: Replace Korn/Bash-only select cons

| On Sun, 06 Oct 2013, Paul Eggert wrote:
| >> A "${##}" expansion would have been better than what I proposed.
| >
| >Unfortunately Solaris /bin/sh doesn't support that.
| 
| Why do we care?  Solaris has /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, and /bin/ksh.

Solaris, 1980 is calling and wants its /bin/sh back!

christos


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