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Subject: Re: Which shell and how to get started handling arguments
From: Janis Papanagnou
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:19 UTC
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From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou)
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Subject: Re: Which shell and how to get started handling arguments
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On 15.04.2024 23:31, Keith Thompson wrote:
>
> Bash has an option that tells it to (attempt to) restrict itself to
> POSIX semantics:
>
> Starting Bash with the '--posix' command-line option or executing
> 'set -o posix' while Bash is running will cause Bash to conform more
> closely to the POSIX standard by changing the behavior to match that
> specified by POSIX in areas where the Bash default differs.
>
> I haven't used this option myself, and I don't know just how closely it
> actually conforms to POSIX.
>
> I'm less familiar with ksh and zsh, but they probably have similar
> options. At least the "MirBSD Korn shell" has "set -o posix".

The branch ksh93u+m has it...

$ set -o | grep -i posix
posix off

But original ksh93u+ doesn't show such an option.

Janis

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Re: Which shell and how to get started handling arguments	Janis Papanagnou

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