cm0002@programming.dev to Linux@programming.dev · 3 days agoWhat's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?jvns.caexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down16
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minus-squarefurikuri@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoThis was more of a problem when they didn’t support basic POSIX-isms so even basic calls to sh like sh -c 'echo "foo" && echo "bar"' would fail. Less of a problem now but you never know when a random script is going to rely on some obscure POSIX flag
minus-squarexav@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoScripts who use #!/bin/sh are independent of your login shell.
minus-squaredarklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoWhat does any of that have to do with your login shell?
This was more of a problem when they didn’t support basic POSIX-isms so even basic calls to
sh
likesh -c 'echo "foo" && echo "bar"'
would fail. Less of a problem now but you never know when a random script is going to rely on some obscure POSIX flagScripts who use
#!/bin/sh
are independent of your login shell.What does any of that have to do with your login shell?