Re: case statement with non-consecutive numbers

[Eli Schwartz]

On 4/15/21 6:26 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> Forgive me for failing to recognize that portability has no gradations.


The word "portable" in unix shell scripting does very much tend to be
associated with that inherently biased meaning, so yes, if you're going
to throw that word around you should qualify it.

Or, possibly, skip mentioning "portability" and get to the point:

> There's no reason to use seq unless you're writing for /bin/sh and
> nothing else is available.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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