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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Formatting Problem Post 302110925 by cfajohnson on Friday 16th of March 2007 12:06:00 PM
Old 03-16-2007
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Originally Posted by Shell_Life
Thank you for your information, cfajohnson.

I was just trying to help Pradeepred solve his problem.

We all know that there are innumerous ways to solve a problem in unix.

For the past 26 years, I have been working for several companies where,
the four most important things are:
1- To get the job done.
2- It does not break.
The point is that it WILL break if the original poster is not using the same shell as you.
Quote:
3- It is easy to understand.
4- It is easy to maintain it.

Again, I was just sincerely trying to help Pradeepred.

Sorry if I broke any rule writing any code that is not considered POSIX
shell script.
The reason for using a POSIX shell is to make the script portable. If you use a shell-specific, non-standard syntax, you may not be helping anyone.

Every *nix system has a POSIX shell, but it may not be bash or ksh93.
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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