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

Roman Kyrylych rkyrylych at n-ix.com.ua
Tue Aug 25 09:41:18 CEST 2009


Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it is, but this encourages people to use bashisms
instead of pure sh.

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