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Has anyone considered extending dash?Has anyone considered extending dash?Posted Aug 8, 2009 11:30 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Has anyone considered extending dash? by fbriere Parent article: A tale of two shells: bash or dash
> The bash(1) manpage doesn't state which features are standard and which are not,
I never use the Bash's man page. Bash's info manual has a "Features found only in Bash" section and is much better generally speaking. If, like many other people you dislike the basic info reader there are a number of alternatives like for instance "yelp info:bash"
> and the standard itself is not always easy to find (or read, for that matter).
Every time I have a doubt about standard conformance I just google for "opengroup + sh-keyword" and most of the time I just land automagically on a page that answers my doubt. In the worst cases the answer is only a few further clicks away.
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Has anyone considered extending dash? Posted Aug 13, 2009 17:23 UTC (Thu) by fbriere (subscriber, #4961) [Link]
> Bash's info manual has a "Features found only in Bash" section and is much better generally speaking.
Thanks, that's good to know. (Looking at it, I believe I might have erroneously used pushd/popd myself.)
However, it appears to be a list of generic features, so it's far from a thorough list. While the "Bash POSIX Mode" subsection goes into more detail, I didn't see any mention of, for example, bash-specific expansion patterns like ${foo/bar/baz}.
> Every time I have a doubt about standard conformance I just google for "opengroup + sh-keyword"
Unfortunately, bash (like Perl) has gobs of Google-unfriendly concepts. (Searching the standard for "." was fun...)
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