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Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh



On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:06:45 -0400 Scott McDermott wrote:
> Chris Ulrich on Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 03:24:54PM -0700:
> Easy solution: 
> 	--enable-minimal-config 	a minimal sh-like configuration

I did this:
$ls -l /bin/sh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root   -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       199808 Mar  8 16:17 /bin/sh*

(which is large for a bare-bones sh. Did I something wrong?)

The most obvious bashism is the {}-expansion (sometimes found in
debian/rules-files).

David
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