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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!plaster.csdc.toshiba.com.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.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: 22 Mar 1996 00:24:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4iss04$eor@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes: > It's also worth noting *why* I switched to bash: because the !@#$ > shell that comes with the system had problems, "big ones", in > dealing with many shell scripts.... Btw., what exactly are your problems? I'd like to hear of them. (I'm sorta maintaining the ash in FreeBSD.) But, please *don't* tell me that the broken Spice configure script does attempt to `trap' signal 9, and ash doesn't like it. ash's idea is perfectly valid (with Posix), even though most shells seem to ignore this pilot error (and are perfectly valid with Posix, too). I think there are a couple more of this kind of problems. -- 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. ;-)