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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting removing bashisms/install dash on cygwin? Post 302224741 by fabulous2 on Thursday 14th of August 2008 12:01:53 AM
Old 08-14-2008
removing bashisms/install dash on cygwin?

I would like to write unix shell scripts which are strictly POSIX compliant, and do not use any specific functionality that ties them down to one particular shell.

What is the best way to do this?

Any script or program that can be run to determine strict POSIX compliance?

Or should I make sure that all my scripts work with dash
Debian Almquist shell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
which I understand offers minimal functionality above POSIX?

And if dash is the best route, does anyone know how to install it underneath cygwin?
 

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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. SEE ALSO
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