On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Joshua Lee wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > > Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In > > redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively. > > You can install ash, the BSD sh, which is closer to the actual Bourne > shell in behavior. I think csh is also similar. You should (and probably > do) have bash also installed in a Linux system however because it's a > defacto standard in the Linux world.
bash is Priority: required. Removing it would certainly make life interesting :) ash is supposed to be POSIX compliant, and according to the package description it makes a better /bin/sh because it is smaller. However I beleive there are some Bourne shell features not present in ash (I don't have a reference for that, it's from memory which may be faulty). AFAIK tcsh is the only C shell available for Debian. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@;incanus.net Whenever men attempt to suppress argument and free speech, we may be sure that they know their cause to be a bad one. -- R. G. Horton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
