Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mprvaxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!ubc-visi!mprvaxa!vsu From: vsu@mprvaxa Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.unix-wizards Subject: shell conversion Message-ID: <247@mprvaxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 18:58:55 EDT Article-I.D.: mprvaxa.247 Posted: Wed Aug 3 18:58:55 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Aug-83 14:55:28 EDT Organization: Microtel Pacific Research, Burnaby BC Lines: 26 My thanks to Messrs. Natalie,Callow,Gwyn,Weiser,Harris and Kraines for their responses. The list below shows the kind of thing I'm looking for but of course it's not complete. If it were, one could write a program to convert shells (almost) PWB SHELL BOURNE V7 SHELL --------- --------------- 1. | Must have #! /bin/sh as first line else | gets treated as C shell. | 2. = a "" | a="" | 3. if "$n" -gt 0 then | if test "$#" -gt 0; then... $n is nb. of parms to shell | Must use test and $n--> $# | 4. endif | fi | 5. ; 'comment' | # comment | 6. echo "string \c" | echo -n "string" | 7. expr arg | = c | c=`expr arg` | 8. savoir faire | je ne sais quoi |