Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?
David Brodbeck wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >I suppose they have their own sh. Because bash is also under active
> >development (and has broken scripts several times in the past).
>
> Yeah, FreeBSD ships its own, less featureful (but more compact!)
> version of sh, with bash available as a port. /bin/sh is used as the
> standard command interpreter.
And also because of the license. *BSD uses a BSD license and needs a
/bin/sh that is compatible with it while Bash uses a GPL license which
is not. This creates a problem for *BSD.
> Linux is the only *nix-ish OS I've used where /bin/sh and bash are
> synonymous. ;)
Not synonymous, just the most prevalent from the distros. It can be
changed and any bugs found in other packages that use bash features
without properly calling bash reported.
Bob
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