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On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:38:29 +0000 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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..... Umm, Debian is also dropping bash as the default shell. bash is just too slow, especially at boot time. Scripts that need bash need to use #!/bin/bash POSIX scripts can use #!/bin/sh -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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