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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Backward compatibility issue with GNU bash, version 4.3.42(5) Post 302996667 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 29th of April 2017 09:52:36 PM
Old 04-29-2017
There are lots of systems like Solaris 10 that are going to be way back - at 3.3 bash, for example.

So, what do you want to do? I would try ksh88 which is close to Linux pdksh. Most systems have that as a fall back. You can also download older versions of bash if you want.

KornShell -> to download ksh 88.

Earlier bash: Index of /gnu/bash
I do not know how well early bash versions like 1.14 behave in new environments.
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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
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