Topic: dash

• Writing a portable POSIX sh script across Linux, BSD, macOS and AIX

  A script meant to run unchanged on Debian's dash, a Linux box's bash-as-sh, FreeBSD, macOS and AIX has to stay inside the POSIX Shell Command Language and avoid GNU-only tool flags; checkbashisms and a short list of GNU-versus-BSD command differences catch most of what breaks.

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