<div dir="ltr">There are plenty of people on this list with more experience across a wider range of UNIX/Linux but I think Bash is your safest bet.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 8:58 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jep200404@columbus.rr.com" target="_blank">jep200404@columbus.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 09:02:43 -0400, Mike Plemmons <<a href="mailto:mikeplemmons@gmail.com">mikeplemmons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What platforms do you want to reach?<br>
<br>
</span>I would like to write scripts that would work on<br>
as many Unix and Linux releases as possible of the past 25 years<br>
with the shells installed by default.<br>
<br>
The focus is on portability<br>
not features,<br>
not on being modern.<br>
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