Re: updatedb files portable?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Andreas Metzler on 12/10/2005 6:48 AM:
> 
>>      if ! bigrams=`mktemp -t updatedbXXXXXXXXX`; then
>>      
>>However (sadly), the solaris bin/sh doesn't support the "!" operation.
> 
> 
> Afaik using ! to change the exit status of a pipeline to its logical
> NOT is a required POSIX feature.

True, but solaris /bin/sh is not POSIX-compliant.  The autoconf project
maintains a good list of which shell constructs are portable to a wide
variety of shells, and documents that ! at the start of the pipeline
should not be used.

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