[colug-432] Portable Shell

Roberto C. Sánchez roberto at connexer.com
Sat Oct 17 22:01:55 EDT 2015


I think posh (Policy-compliant Ordinary SHell) and dash (Debian Almquist
Shell), both of which are shells included in Debian, strive to be
POSIX-compliant.  I think they might be good targets if portability is
your goal.

Regards,

-Roberto

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:17:48PM -0400, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> Which version of which shell should I write for for excellent portability?
> What documentation do you cite for it?
> 
> I have used Bourne shell as the standard for portability,
> and had though that it had ossified a long time ago,
> but was informed that Bourne is under active development,
> so now I feel unsettled about Bourne being the standard 
> of portability, if it is a moving target. I have not 
> found anything about continued development of Bourne 
> shell. Bourne quit changing it around 1983.
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