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# 8  
Old 06-29-2009
I agree mythel, the biggest pain is some of those basic commands.

I wrote my scripts using bash, they will work with ksh with minor tweaks.

I've worked around most of the system command differences trying to stick to POSIX, but I used arrays in my scripts, so I decided to compile a version of bash for each OS and that is working the best so far.
# 9  
Old 06-29-2009
kshji, this is a good idea. I've seen many of the same problems with perl, java having multiple installs on a system, you have to find out what version is linked.
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