Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.news-service.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jens Schweikhardt Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.programming.contests Subject: Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Date: 19 Aug 2011 19:29:31 GMT Lines: 22 Sender: Jens Schweikhardt Message-ID: <9b7rsrFiseU3@mid.individual.net> References: <9b7kg7F3njU1@mid.individual.net> <9b7qtqFiseU1@mid.individual.net> X-Trace: individual.net mfGmZSla6aAIdzqBwTwjNArsc+eWo95bEM4tsxeltjItQa04td X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:EzwnCslc2JT8evL8QF6ARbKRAJA= User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20101126 ("Burnside") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT (i386)) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.unix.shell:1722 comp.unix.programmer:1162 comp.programming.contests:13 In comp.unix.shell pk wrote: # On 19 Aug 2011 19:12:58 GMT, Jens Schweikhardt # wrote: # #> # Awk and Perl are built in my POSIX shell and not "[". Which am I #> # allowed to use? #> #> Then our understanding of the term "built-in" is very different and #> I'm afraid it is yours that is the non-conventional one. # # POSIX does not forbid a shell to have whatever you may think of built-in. And because I am aware of that I made explicit references to test and [ and printf. I'll never understand why people try so hard to misunderstand on purpose... :-) Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)