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by dolni 1357 days ago
Nearly all of the shell scripts ever written don't need to run on Linux, and BSD, and Mac, and/or whatever esoteric Unixes that are still out there.

If you are writing a shell script with the intention of running in many places, fine.

But if you do that, the POSIX compatibility will be the least of your worries.