On 8/24/17 10:59 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > How does starting a script with "#!/bin/sh start a script in > bash mode?
It doesn't: $ ./bash --version GNU bash, version 4.4.12(4)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0) Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. $ cat x6a #!./sh alias lf='echo lf' lf $ cat x6 #! ./bash --posix alias lf='echo lf' lf $ ./x6 lf $ ./x6a lf -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
