Is it better practice to write Bash scripts or Bourne scripts? My team writes Bourne scripts but I am not entirely sure why.
If this is a holy war question (ie: vim vs. emacs) please just reply: holy war.
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Is it better practice to write Bash scripts or Bourne scripts? My team writes Bourne scripts but I am not entirely sure why.
If this is a holy war question (ie: vim vs. emacs) please just reply: holy war.
It depends on what your target platform is.
If you’re only targeting, say, major Linux distributions and Mac OS X, then you can be confident that these systems will have bash available. On other UNIXes (e.g., AIX, Solaris, HP-UX), bash may not necessarily be present, so Bourne is the safer choice. If bash is available, I can think of no reason you might prefer Bourne.