Re: ash vs. bash
> At 02:37 +0100 1999-07-20, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >> It would be nice to downgrade [bash] from required to important (or even
> >> standard) and remove the essential flag, though.
> >
> >But only if you're going to rewrite essential system scripts such as
> >/etc/init.d/rc without using bash.
>
> Where's the alleged bashism in /etc/init.d/rc? I don't see one.
> No,${i#/etc/rc$runlevel.d/S[0-9][0-9]} is not a bashism.
It turns out that the potato version observed this and replaced the
slink version's #!/bin/bash directive with a #!/bin/sh one.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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