Thanks for the responses.
So, in cygwin for Win XP, is it possible to set my environment in such a way that the default shell
is bash?
Thanks Paolo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script
Paolo Gesmundo wrote:
I know that I could modify a.sh by adding #!/bin/bash at the top of the file but I would need to avoid this otherwise I have to modify too many scripts
Is there a way to run a.sh like in Case 1 and get the proper result like in Case 2?
It sounds like your scripts are banking on the assumption that under linux, sh=bash, whereas on Cygwin sh=ash. So, you can't get away with using bash-isms in scripts without shebangs because you are relying on a specific quirk of linux. If you require bash-specific features you need to either call bash explicitly in the shebang or exec the script from bash. Otherwise your script is not going to be portable on any system other than linux. bash != sh.
Brian
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