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

[Andreas Ericsson]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 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.
> 

The wrong thing is to use bashisms in scripts intended to be portable. Using
a more competent shell to emulate a less competent one is not wrong. Ergo,
it's not wrong to make /bin/sh a symlink (or hardlink) to /bin/bash.

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