[TUHS] sh: cmd | >file

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/6/20 4:29 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> 
>> Would anyone who uses Bash regularly, both interactively and
>> for scripting, really want to go back to using the V7 sh
>> for production work?
> 
> I have never used all the fancy stuff in BASH such as the arithmetic
> functions; I still use "expr" etc for portability.

Portability to what? The POSIX $((...)) arithmetic expansion is widely
implemented and near-universally available.

Some of the other things are more esoteric, but you should be able to
increase your expectation to POSIX features and still be sufficiently
portable.

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