I doubt anyone cares about shipping software compatible with anything before POSIX.

As I wrote:

Oops #1: Assumes every bourne shell accepts # for comments. Most of them do, but the ancient V7 bourne shell does not. Oh well. Document it as limitation and ship it.

Same for non-8-bit-clean shells.

Of course, Oops #1 and Oops #2 were the low-hanging fruits, and the 8-bit problem of old shells isin the same category.

And of course, the author of ShellQuote probably meant "bash" rather than "bourne", just guessing.

Even if he meant bash instead of bourne, String::ShellQuote still damages data (Oops #2) and still does not quote correctly (Oops #3 and #4).

And if your guess is correct, it is at least a documentation error. Every homo sapiens is a mammal, but not every mammal is a homo sapiens. Every bash is a bourne shell, but not every bourne shell is a bash.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^3: Problems with String::ShellQuote by afoken
in thread Problems with String::ShellQuote by afoken

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