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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 18 Mar 1996 00:07:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ii9ge$mog@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jdb@robigo.winternet.com (John D. Boggs) writes: > What sort of nasties (if any) should I expect if I replace /bin/sh > with bash in FreeBSD-2.1.0? Even more brokeness? Dunno. Anyway, why do you want? (I hope not only for the line editor. /bin/sh does also have one. It does grok many of the Posix enhancement as well, but it's less bloated than bash.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)