Re: [389-devel] portability issue: scripts expecting /bin/sh to be bash

On 02/24/2014 03:16 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I noticed that some shell scripts have bashisms in them, on Debian and
> it's derivatives /bin/sh is dash. A quick list of scripts shipped by
> 389-ds-base having this issue:
>
> monitor
> ldif2db
> ldif2ldap
> db2bak
> vlvindex
> dn2rdn
> restoreconfig
> saveconfig
> upgradedb
> suffix2instance
> dbverify
>
> but since I just ran all the scripts without any options, there might be
> others too that fail with "unexpected operator" errors etc when ran in a
> real environment. So maybe change all of them to use /bin/bash or
> migrate them to be posix compatible (and somehow test new ones for
> compliance)?
>
>
I think they should be changed to be plain old posix bourne shell
compatible - lowest common denominator. There's no reason to use bash
specific features.

https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47511
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