On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:24:19AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-05-24 10:28:35 -0500, David Champion wrote: > > PATH_SEPARATOR does not exist in a Bourne shell. It may be POSIX, but > > only a few shells are indeed POSIX; whereas the convention for calling a > > shell script does not specify POSIX shells, only /bin/sh. > > PATH_SEPARATOR is user code only. Not all systems use ':' as the PATH > separator, so a shell script shouldn't assume that ':' is necessarily > the PATH separator. I'm not aware of any Unix-derivative systems where /bin/sh is not a Bourne-shell derivative (Bourne Shell, Korn Shell, POSIX shell, or Bash). All of those shells use ':' as the path separator for $PATH. Can you suggest an example? In any event, -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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