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I've only been reading this newsgroup for a while, because only recently did I
start using bash (now I use it on all my machines, it's great!).  So this
question has perhaps been discussed before.

Does anyone have a list of incompatibilities between bash and the 1988 version
of ksh?  I'm mostly interested in the differences that are a problem for shell
script programmers (I've been writing probably 500 lines/month of ksh for the
last four years).  Here's my current list of problematic bash-1.12
differences:

   1) set options aren't local to a function

   2) doesn't support -L -R -Z -l -u args to typeset

   3) 'typeset -i i ; [ i=i+1 -gt 0 ]' doesn't work as expected

   4) doesn't support (( )), only let and typeset -i

   5) $(< file) doesn't work

   6) 'ENV_VAR=temp_value foo foo_args' doesn't work if foo is a shell function

   7) doesn't have a print command with the various options

   8) typeset -i foo=0123 will store 83 into foo (i.e. leading 0 means octal)

These are listed in rough order of inverse importance, with 1 and 2 being the
most problematic.

By the way, I'd care less about the typeset options (except for -l and -u) if
there were a printf builtin (which would seem easy to implement).  I use the
'printf' command I got off Usenet at times, but usually I don't want to expend
the exec.

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