dash/ash

Posted Oct 2, 2014 11:00 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: dash/ash by chutzpah
Parent article: Bash gets shellshocked

Adding a selection of the more scripting-friendly bashisms to dash might not bloat it. For example, the array feature looks simple: one-dimensional only, integer indices, and dash already supports evaluating integer expressions in the context of $((expr)) expansion. Of course, identifying which are the most useful extensions (without taking all bash features) is a problem.