[ale] Shell Scripting for Compatiblity

[Geoffrey]

bash is the place to start.  It should be compatible with most other 
variants, but will very likely seriously break with csh.  Really not 
much you can do about that.  Most all unix systems come with some 
variant of the bourne shell.  You might consider using:

#!/bin/sh

Since, I believe, most all UNIX variants have /bin/sh default to bourne.

aaron wrote:
> I couple months back I demoed the Worker file manager for a central
> meeting "Tip Jar" segment. I showed how the utility can easily be
> extended via a little shell script I wrote for it which added batch
> file.ext and sequential file renaming. Worker's author would now like
> to include my little script contribution with his future releases,
> but I want to make sure the script is as broadly Unix compatible as
> possible... the Worker interface is pure xwindows so it will run on
> most any *nix variant.
> 
> Currently the program is working in bash, which is specified in the
> she-bang: #!/bin/bash
> 
> I'm looking for recommendations on which (mostly compatible) Unix
> shells I should also consider targeting and testing this with. It
> would also be helpful to hear about any general compatibility syntax
> differences to watch for (along the lines of a freqently misspelled
> words list).
> 
> Assistance appreciated!
> 
> peace aaron
> 
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