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| author | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-10-06 22:18:33 +0000 |
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| committer | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-10-06 22:18:33 +0000 |
| commit | fa301a6a0b21a4cd47094467399730eac7bbd9a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 659e68787c8f6f4b386fa5b2ed5792996931339a /doc/portability-book | |
| parent | 46f75bea5d9a19ec2ed7ddfaee9debe92522262c (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-fa301a6a0b21a4cd47094467399730eac7bbd9a7.tar.gz | |
Provided a link to the Open Group's utilities web page.
Tested "test foo == bar" with test(1) from the GNU coreutils. It does
_not_ know the "==" operator.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/portability-book')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/portability-book/files/utilities.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/portability-book/files/utilities.xml b/doc/portability-book/files/utilities.xml index 8d84a131803..ff704437157 100644 --- a/doc/portability-book/files/utilities.xml +++ b/doc/portability-book/files/utilities.xml @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ -<!-- $NetBSD: utilities.xml,v 1.1.1.1 2006/10/06 21:10:41 rillig Exp $ --> +<!-- $NetBSD: utilities.xml,v 1.2 2006/10/06 22:18:33 rillig Exp $ --> <chapter id="utilities"> <title>Command line utilities</title> <para>This chapter collects the various bugs and peculiarities of the -POSIX-like utilities on the platforms.</para> +<ulink url="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/idx/utilities.html">POSIX-like +utilities</ulink> on the platforms.</para> <sect1 id="util.sh"> <title>sh</title> @@ -108,8 +109,10 @@ when y starts with a dot, that is, for hidden files.</para> <para>The Bourne Again Shell (Bash) allows the binary operator <literal>==</literal> to be used as an alias for <literal>=</literal>. This leads to problems when programs using this feature are ported to -other platforms. Furthermore, there is no apparent benefit for having -two names for the same operator.</para> +other platforms. By the way, not even the GNU coreutils have that +<quote>feature</quote>, it's really only Bash that does. After all, +there is no apparent benefit for having two names for the same +operator.</para> </sect2> |