[CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

Joerg Schilling
2015-04-27T10:38:14Z

<m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Ah. I don't remember if I was using csh, or ksh, and didn't realize
about
> bash. I *think* I vaguely remember that sh seemed to be more capable than
> I remembered.

If you like to check what the Bourne Shell did support in the late 1980s, I
recommend you to fetch recent Schily tools from:

	https://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/

compile and install and test "osh".

This is the SVr4 Bourne Shell, so you need to take into account what has been
added with Svr4:

-	multibyte character support. In the 1980s, the Bourne Shell was just
	8-bit clean.

-	job-control. If you do not call "jsh", or if you switch off
jobcontrol
	via "set +m" in a job shell, you have the job-control related
builtins
	but there is no processgroup management.

J?rg

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