RE: RE: Bug with backticks behaviour in mSYS?

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> I don't suppose there is a "de-facto" specification document around
> that would explain all the shell quoting rules?

Autoconf documentation includes some useful guidelines on portable
shell scripting:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_chapter/autoconf_10.html
(this isn't from the current version of autoconf, but AFAICT it's the
most recent available for browsing online; I don't think it's changed
much for autoconf-2.59).

For an even more comprehensive comparison of various shells, their
history, and their limitations, you could also have a look at:
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/
http://code.dogmap.org/lintsh/

Regards,
Keith.


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