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Re: [Help-bash] Awkward behavior of empty arrays


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Awkward behavior of empty arrays
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:09:12 -0400
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On 9/7/17 4:00 PM, Andy Chu wrote:

> I had noticed that some people discourage or complain about "bash-isms"
> (this seems to be common in Debian.)  As far as I can tell, most of those
> things are historically "ksh-isms", but nobody calls them that.

The comparison isn't against ksh. It's mostly made against dash, which is
much "purer", or sometimes Posix. It happens the most on Debian because
Debian uses dash as /bin/sh.

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