[op5-users] Bash instead of sh for install-merlin.sh

[Andreas Ericsson]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> nap wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Patrik Båt<Patrik.Bat at cypoint.se> wrote:
>>> Nowdays /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash in some distributions ...
>>> But at it seems with ubutnu, its not... it's the old happy bornshell...
>> Ununtu is always... surprising... :)
> 
> Making /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash is wrong.

It's not actually wrong per se since bash is posix compatible.

> At least Debian (and thus Ubuntu) and Arch are using dash as /bin/sh,
> not sure about RedHat/Fedora.
> 

dash has its own bugs and quirks though.

Either way, the discussion is pointless since I've changed the install
script to work with any posix-compatible shell.

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