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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Kyle Andrews <kyle@posteo.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:56:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttxayank.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz407482.fsf@posteo.net> (Kyle Andrews's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2023 06:18:33 +0000")

Hi Kyle,

Kyle Andrews <kyle@posteo.net> writes:

> Dear Guix,
>
> The (many) shell scripts in my software depend on bashisms. In the
> code right now I typically use /usr/bin/env bash since I had read that
> was the most portable way of referencing a shell. However, I really
> don't think I have a good handle on what my choices are. Maybe the
> tedious solution of just typing `bash script.sh' in all of the system
> calls referencing this scripts might be the right approach in the long
> run?

Use /usr/bin/env.  It's available on all mainstream distributions, and
it's also available on Guix System, so it should work everywhere.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-20 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-19  6:18 Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros Kyle Andrews
2023-04-19  8:08 ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-19 13:05   ` Martin Castillo
2023-04-19 15:10 ` (
2023-04-19 15:18   ` (
2023-04-19 17:24   ` Kyle
2023-04-19 18:30     ` (
2023-04-20 22:32       ` Kyle Andrews
2023-04-21  5:36         ` (
2023-04-21 18:35           ` Kyle
2023-04-21 18:57             ` Kyle
2023-05-21  4:32             ` Philip McGrath
2023-04-20 12:56 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-04-21 15:44   ` Kyle
2023-04-22 20:36     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-04-27  2:16       ` Kyle
2023-04-20 19:51 ` wolf

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