Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 4:57 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2007-08-21 09:55:46 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > Linux is the only *nix-ish OS I've used where /bin/sh and bash are
> > synonymous. ;)
>
> You probably haven't used it, but under Mac OS X too:
>
> prunille:~> uname -a
> Darwin prunille.vinc17.org 8.10.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.0: Wed  
> May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC Power  
> Macintosh powerpc PowerMac7,3 Darwin
> prunille:~> sh --version
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> (This is the default, I didn't change anything.)

Huh, sure enough.  I actually do use MacOS X, but I never thought to  
check.