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Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?



On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> that is a point which surprise me : i understand the dash for a posix 
> and lightweight attitude but why use bash as "modern shell" ? why not 
> perl or zsh (which are both more powerfull) ?

Well, as long as you don't start using stuff that breaks often, or that
loads a ton of crap dynamically, or (even worse) is in /usr instead of /bin
or /sbin...

Note that using dash is probably MUCH faster than perl.  I don't know about
zsh.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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