[pass] [PATCH] oneline option

[Matthew Cengia]

On 2014-02-26 13:56, Nico Schottelius wrote:
[...]
> I have seen a lot of bashism in password-store and was wondering if
> you'd accept cleanups that would make it work with posix shell?

For my part, I personally decided a few years ago that I consider it
acceptable to rely on Bash 3+ as a lowest common denominator. The effort
required to conform to POSIX, when there are still non-POSIX shells (and
therefore you scripts *still* aren't guaranteed to be portable) is far
too high for the minimal benefit I think it affords. If you need to run
the script on a system without Bash, compile Bash for the system.

There are several bashisms without which shell programming is
exceptionally painful. Examples:

* Arrays. Sure, you can use set -- a b c; but that's rather more
  cumbersome.

* Process substitution, particularly with regard to loops when you can't
  afford a subshell because you lose variable scope.

I haven't reviewed password-store's code to determine exactly how many
bashisms are in use, but I don't think removing is worth the effort,
especially given the shebang explicitly demands bash.

-- 
Regards,
Matthew Cengia
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