bash scripting across linux and solaris

[David Hummel]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Theodore Ruegsegger<gruntly-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> In particular, calling it sh enforces POSIX-compliance.

Not quite.  Historical versions of the Bourne shell are not
POSIX-compliant, but bash aims to be (which is the reason Debian
symlinks sh to bash).  So if you call bash as sh, it tries to behave
like sh without breaking POSIX-compliance.

My suggestion would be that if you're on GNU/Linux, write for bash,
don't be afraid of it.  It's a far superior shell to traditional
Bourne...