On Tue, 8 May 2007 11:02:13 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:30:00AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2007 11:04:02 +0300 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) wrote: > > > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:27:45PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > > Minor nit: in Debian, '/bin/sh' is a symlink to bash; I don't know what > > > > it is on other systems. So IIUC, when you write '#!/bin/sh', you aren't > > > > really specifying a shell, but are rather saying 'use the standard > > > > shell'. > > > > > > Which can be different from system to system: > > > > That's what I meant to imply. > > > > > ls -l /bin/sh > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-03-23 02:30 /bin/sh -> /bin/dash > > > > > > /bin/sh is rather used for POSIX compatibility. > > > > That's sort of what I meant; I was responding to Andrew who had implied > > that writing '/bin/sh' will '[ensure] script compatibility across > > different systems' > > okay, so that one maybe didn't belong in the list since its generally > just a link (though I note that 'man dash' provides the 'sh' That's all I meant; I did say it was a 'minor nit' :). Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
