Bash – $(( )) vs. $[]

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 05.12.2012, 18:00 +0100 schrieb Johnny Rosenberg:
> 2012/12/5 Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:
> > hi,
> > Am Dienstag, den 04.12.2012, 18:47 +0100 schrieb Johnny Rosenberg:
> >> 2012/12/4 Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:
> >> Disadvantages, such as?
> >
> > size, slowness, the fact that dash as a system shell has most likely all
> > depending libs in ram already and the fact that bash uses unportable
> > shell dialect enhancements
> 
> That doesn't seem to me to be a big problem, since bash seems to be
> installed by default in most systems anyway. And if not, it's not that
> hard to install it. I'm only writing scripts for my own use anyway (I
> am pretty sure nobody else would want them anyway).

oh, yeah, dont get me wrong, bash is surely one of the best user shells
existing ... its just not great as a system shell due to all the
overhead it has to carry to make it user friendly.

ciao
	oli
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