[jwhat]

Hi Raion,

I got distracted with getting IRIX man pages available ...

I spent $$ on buying old Bolsky/Korn "Korn" & "New Korn"  shell books and also in getting Man page up and running have been reading details of the sh man page.

I found this at bottom of sh man page on "Compatibility"

Code:

"When the shell is invoked as "sh", the following features are performed
    only when the current value of the _XPG variable is equal to 1 (one):

          - command substitution of the form "$( command )"
          - arithmetic expression of the form "$(( expression ))"
          - tilde expansion of pathnames
          - unsetting variables, not previously set or null, returns 0"

So as a lot of update I did related to changing the $() to back quotes ``, I think I will download new fork and use this to to create updated version build with the right _XPG env setting and see if this allow of less revisions.

It is always quicker the second time ;-) and I have much better understanding of how the scripts work. If I can avoid having to "fix" all the backquotes then job will be much easier.

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat