[oclug] .bash_profile scripting

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:52:39PM -0500, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
> Yes indeed!  If you decide to go non-POSIX, make it a conscious decision
> and realize what you lose when you can't run your scripts anywhere
> but Linux.  Losing portability for the sake of == vs. = isn't worth it.

That's not *quite* fair.  bash is ported to approximately 1 bajillion
different operating systems, including Windows.  But I agree that very
few of these other operating systems come with bash installed by default.

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