RE: [LUG] Noisy Bash

[Alex Charrett <Alex.Charrett at sis.securicor.co.uk>]

-- Simon wrote:

> Bash seems ever so slightly noisy.
> 
> Noticed that scripts starting "#!/bin/bash" throw a blank 
> line to stdio.
> Seems to occur whenever bash is started, is this normal? Documented?

Does it happen if they start /bin/sh (usually a symlink to /bin/bash)?

[alex at moe alex]$ ls -l `which sh`
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Nov 27 14:40 /bin/sh -> bash*

>From memory, running bash from /bin/sh like that puts it into some sort of
bourne shell compatibility mode.  Maybe this will fix it?

> Simon, parsing script output the hardway as he hasn't learnt perl.

Learn it, it's lurvely. :)

Alex.
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