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Re: Identifying incompatible change while bash upgrade
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Tim Visher |
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Re: Identifying incompatible change while bash upgrade |
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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:58:14 -0500 |
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 1:22 PM Aviraj Cj (acj) via <help-bash@gnu.org>
wrote:
> I was trying to migrate old shell scripts (running on bash-4.2) to run on
> bash 5, I am seeing failures due to Compatibility related changes…
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> One option which I am following is to set BASH_COMPAT to older working
> version for those scripts but since final goal is to migrate the script to
> run on latest version is there an script or tool available which will
> identify this incompatible change before running…
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The best general linter I'm aware of is shellcheck
<https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck>. That said I don't know if it's
not currently catching these sorts of bugs if there's too many issues with
your current script to make it tenable to run. Have you tried that?