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Re: /bin/sh as an alternative



On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:

> I think that the shell should also run in "POSIX-mode" if it is invoked as
> sh - bash does this, I don't know about the others.  I don't think it's very
> nice if we have to start doing things like "sh --posix ..." to get a POSIX
> shell.

Yes, I can only agree. But is bash actually completely POSIX-compliant
(and nothing more than that) when called as /bin/sh ?

Remco
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