[ITP] posh 0.6 -- Almost POSIX compliant SHell

Jari Aalto (Cygwin-bug#20080219T2116) jari.aalto@cante.net
Wed Feb 20 00:14:00 GMT 2008


Included in Debian stable:

    http://packages.debian.org/posh

This shell was written for the Debian project to check that the
/etc/init.d and other system scripts would be as POSIX compliant as
possible. It allows few non-posix things, that are defined in Debian
Policy; like 'local' keyword -- thus the name "Almost".

I find this one to be of the most strict shells around and a good
checking tool for sh-scripts.

Jari

sdesc: "Almost POSIX compliant SHell"
ldesc: "A stripped-down version of pdksh that aims for close
compliance of POSIX. Posh is intended to be used for revealing if
/bin/sh scripts use features that most /bin/sh shells do not have."
category: Interpreters
requires: cygwin

a) manual

  wget        \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/posh/posh-0.6-1-src.tar.bz2 \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/posh/posh-0.6-1.tar.bz2 \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/posh/setup.hint

b) automated

  gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 955A92D8

  mkdir posh ; cd posh
  rm -f get.sh get.sh.sig
  wget    http://cygwin.cante.net/posh/get.sh \
          http://cygwin.cante.net/posh/get.sh.sig &&
  gpg --verify get.sh.sig get.sh &&
  sh get.sh

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