Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]
Maybe either the scripts are so old that they were never updated when
newer shells besides bash came out, or maybe they assumed that all newer
shells would be bash-compatible, or maybe the people who wrote them are
just stupid :) Not everyone's a genius you know :)
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote:
> > I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in
> > /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to
> > /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up.
>
> If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line
> #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and
> /bin/bash are equivalent?
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