Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mozcom.com>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Richard Kilgore wrote:

> Seems to me that if you write a program that does't work with a
> vanilla bourne shell anyway, then you shouldn't be calling
> /bin/sh.  I can't think of a reason not to hard code /bin/bash.

I couldn't aqgree more.  Packages providing scripts which say
#!/bin/sh and which actually require /bin/bash are buggy, and
should have bug reports filed against them.  Unless someone
speaks up with reasons why I'm wrong about this, you'd be doing
the project a service by reporting bugs against the offending
packages when you notice these offenses.



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