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-[POSIX_ME_HARDER] is an environment variable that can be used as
an alias for the [POSIXLY_CORRECT] variable for some programs, particularly those written by people exasperated by some aspect of the [POSIX] standards. See [Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9108281809.AA03552%40mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu].
+[POSIX_ME_HARDER] is an alias for the [POSIXLY_CORRECT] an environment
variable that can be used
for some programs, particularly those written by people exasperated by some aspect of the [POSIX] standards. See [Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units|http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9108281809.AA03552%40mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu]. Despite that page suggesting that df(1) uses [POSIX_ME_HARDER], at least recent versions don't. So it's not a very good alias
.
-That page suggests that df(1) uses POSIX_ME_HARDER, but recent versions don't, at least:
-<verbatim>
-[crb@jane]: ~
$ df
-Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
-/dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
-[crb@jane]: ~
$ export
POSIX_ME_HARDER=yes
-[crb@jane]: ~$
df
-Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
-/dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
-[crb@jane]: ~
$ export
POSIXLY_CORRECT=yes
-[crb@jane]: ~$
df
-Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
-/dev/hda3 37381152 7917280 27564992 23% /
-</verbatim>
+
$ df
+ Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
+ /dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
+ $ POSIX_ME_HARDER=yes df
+ Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
+ /dev/hda3 18690576 3958640 13782496 23% /
+ $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=yes df
+ Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
+ /dev/hda3 37381152 7917280 27564992 23% /
-So it's not a very good one, but
it's part of the history. :)
+But
it's still
part of the history. :)
