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Re: ash does not understand '~'

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:19:36PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:

Hi,

the following shell script does not work at least with ash-20031007-1 although I don't see any reason why this should not be a valid syntax. If you use

The reason is, '~' is an extension to the bourne shell syntax, first defined in csh or tcsh, AFAIK. ash is a pure bourne shell with next to no extensions. Using '~' in a shell script is non-portable.

Non-protable to such "OSes" that don't have a more modern shell then Bourne/Ash I guess. Are there any "OSes" that don't support shells like csh, tcsh, ksh, bash?



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