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Re: netscape and sh/bash



On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 02:08:14AM -0500, JonesMB wrote:
> This has probabyly been discused here before but a search in the archives 
> produced no results.
> I am running a Debian 1.3.1 system with a 2.0.33 kernel and v4.05 of Netscape. 
>  I have my helper apps setup in Netscape but when I click on a link that is 
> supposed to launch an application, I always get a dialog box with errors like 
> this
> "sh -c:line 1:missing closing ")" for arithmetic expression" 
> there are always 3 of these.  I did a find for sh, I noticed that /bin/sh is 
> linked to /bin/bash.
> How do I fix this so that applications will be launched properly.

I remember this one :)

AFAIK it is (was?) a bug in bash. Are you upgraded to the latest version
of bash? if not...then try that first otherwise...

install ash
ln -sf /bin/ash /bin/sh

then sh will link to ash which doesn't have this problem.

AFAIR that is the workaround (I have had no probs with it)

-Steve

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