Re: [Hampshire] Bash -> Dash for sh. Is it safe?

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Author: Bob Dunlop
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Bash -> Dash for sh. Is it safe?
Hi,

On Fri, Jun 01 at 09:29, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> My login shell I left as /bin/bash since it's a bit more friendly I
> use bashisms like:
>
> mv foo{,.old}       (expands to "mv foo foo.old")


Actually that type of expansion first appeared in the Csh on BSD
back in the early 80's. So it's a Cshell-ism or more likely it'd
be called a BSDism.

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        Bob Dunlop