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#! rnews 1139 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!minotaur.labyrinth.net.au!zen!sjg From: sjg@zen.void.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty) Subject: Re: /bin/sh isn't Bourne shell Organization: Zen programming... Message-ID: <1996Feb10.072012.5827@zen.void.oz.au> References: <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> <xcdensholio.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> <4enl74$ifr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 07:20:12 GMT Lines: 18 ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall) writes: >: sounds like a ksh to me... but you knew that. >It's this /bin/sh that I'm complaining about, not pdksh ! >Read the man page on sh(1); Search for "ENV" and "alias". Those words are >there, I don't think they should be ! >What is the /bin/sh that comes with 2.1.0-R by default ? What you are seeing is the POSIX shell. Its not the Bourne shell and its not the Korn shell, its a little of both. --sjg -- Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au> #include <disclaimer> /* imagine something _very_ witty here */