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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:38:29PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > > (and it's not a bash script, it's a shell script. By default /bin/sh pints > > to _dash_ not _bash_ on Ubuntu). > > Whose bright idea was that? I see the Ubuntu brainstorm has a proposal > to change it back, sounds like a sensible idea. Talk about pointless > forking in distros..... Well, it's an option in Debian: if you install the dash package you're asked whether you want /bin/sh to be dash or bash. Debian policy is that all scripts should work with dash or any other posix shell, not require bash - unless they explicitly point to /bin/bash not /bin/sh. Dash has the advantage of being faster; using it apparently speeds up booting by several seconds, though I can't find any specific figures. FWIW, I've been using dash on several machines for years now, and I've only hit one bug caused by a package assuming sh was bash. On the other had, Henry's problem is completely unrelated to whether sh is bash or dash... -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -- Albert Einstein
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