root@devon.lns.pa.us (Mark Buda) (07/16/89)
Greetings. I've just gotten bash to work on a Genix 4.1BSD system. Well, almost - job control is still screwed up. I got a copy of bash because I want to run C news, which relies heavily on shell scripts, and my Bourne shell is broken (plus the fact that I collect software, especially free software). Now, C News warns the user somewhere in the documentation that certain parts of it rely on precise compatibility with the Real Bourne Shell - things that even the Korn shell gets wrong. Not having a copy of the Korn shell, I don't know what these are... but here's an incompatibility I just found: test " 5" -le 0 is accepted by the Bourne shell. Bash complains that it wants an integer before a -le. A more complete list is sure to follow. Mark Buda hermit@chessene.uucp devon.lns.pa.us!chessene!hermit ...!rutgers!devon!chessene!hermit hermit%chessene@devon.lns.pa.us