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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> wrote:
> function.  To my knowledge bourne does not support functions.  Changing
> the #! line to call bash instead worked.

POSIX shells certainly do.  I suspect the problem in your case was that the
script used the function keyword, which is not supported by POSIX.

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