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</code></pre></div> <p>Quotes around the arithmetic expansion <code>$((MATH))</code> should not be necessary as per POSIX, but Bash and AT&T-KSH perform word-splitting on aritrhmetic expansions, so the most portable is <em>with quotes</em>.</p> <h3 id=echo-command>echo command<a class=headerlink href=#echo-command title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3> <p>The overall problem with <code>echo</code> is, that there are 2 (maybe more) mainstream flavours around. The only case where you may safely use an <code>echo</code> on all systems is: Echoing non-variable arguments that don't start with a <code>-</code> (dash) and don't contain a <code>\</code> (backslash).</p> <p>Why? (list of known behaviours)</p> <ul> <li>may or may not automatically interpret backslash escpape codes in the strings</li> <li>may or may not automatically interpret switches (like <code>-n</code>)</li> <li>may or may not ignore "end of options" tag (<code>--</code>)</li> <li><code>echo -n</code> and <code>echo -e</code> are neither portable nor standard (<strong>even within the same shell</strong>, depending on the version or environment variables or the build options, especially KSH93 and Bash)</li> </ul> <p>For these, and possibly other, reasons, POSIX (SUS) standardized the existance of <a href=../../commands/builtin/printf/ >the <code>printf</code> command</a>.</p> <h3 id=parameter-expansions>Parameter expansions<a class=headerlink href=#parameter-expansions title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3> <ul> <li><code>${var:x:x}</code> is KSH93/Bash specific</li> <li><code>${var/../..}</code> and <code>${var//../..}</code> are KSH93/Bash specific</li> <li><code>var=$*</code> and <code>var=$@</code> are not handled the same in all shells if the first char of IFS is not " " (space). <code>var="$*"</code> should work (except the Bourne shell always joins the expansions with space)</li> </ul> <h3 id=special-variables>Special variables<a class=headerlink href=#special-variables title="Permanent link">¶</a></h3> <h4 id=pwd>PWD<a class=headerlink href=#pwd title="Permanent link">¶</a></h4> <p><a href=../../syntax/shellvars/#PWD>PWD</a> is POSIX but not Bourne. Most shells are <em>not POSIX</em> in that they don't ignore the value of the <code>PWD</code> environment variable. Workaround to fix the value of <code>PWD</code> at the start of your script:</p> <div class=highlight><pre><span></span><code>pwd -P > dev/null
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