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From: jm@maths.tcd.ie (Justin Mason)
Subject: Re: [BSD386] 'make' seems to take a long time - elm2.4
Message-ID: <1992Nov23.195002.4515@maths.tcd.ie>
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Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:50:02 GMT
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rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) writes:
> [replacing sh with bash]
>This may cause you problems when booting. It's also going to expose
>all the sh dependent code in system shell scripts. Rich
I've been using bash for a while as my root shell on SunOS 4.1.2, and
I haven't had any incompatibility problems. Apart from using builtin
identifiers as function names or creating files with metacharacters
in their names, has anyone out there found any sh-dependent code?
sh seems quite robust, and bash seems a very accurate superset.
--
"I find the law of fives to be more evident every time I look".
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