| In addition to the problems with portability in shell implementations discussed in the previous section, the behaviour of the shell can also be drastically affected by the contents of certain environment variables , and the operating environment provided by the host machine. It is important to be aware of the behavior of some of the operating systems within which your shell script might run. Although not directly related to the implementation of the shell interpreter, the characteristics of some of target architectures do influence what is considered to be portable. To ensure your script will work on as many shell implementations as possible, you must observe the followin points. SCO Unix doesn't like
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The target architecture file system may impose limits on your scripts. IF you want your scripts to run on the architectures which impose these limits, then your script must adhere to these limits:
A useful idiom when you need to determine whether a particular pathname is relative or absolute, which works for DOS targets to follows :
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