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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!news.spss.com!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: /bin/sh isn't Bourne shell In-Reply-To: ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk's message of 30 Jan 1996 10:23:16 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdensholio.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall) Lines: 25 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 13:33:03 GMT Our friend, ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall), wrote: > Later I need to create more vty's, and ran MAKEDEV. It barfed about some > non-existant error. Wierd. Eventually I tracked it down - although > /dev/MAKEDEV was #!/bin/sh, it was reading in my $ENV file and loading up > the aliases. One of which was "j", which affected a case statement rather > badly. sounds like a ksh to me... but you knew that. > But one of the reasons that I switched from Linux > to FreeBSD was just that - it's more "standard". > > Where can I get a "proper" Bourne shell ? AT&T for a bunch of money. Hack out checking ENV in the pdksh source. It should be pretty easy and probably is a good thing to do in any case. > If I want features, I'll use ksh or > bash, but sometimes, you just don't need 'em ! I agree. That is why I use es as my interactive shell :) Soren