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Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the setup postinstall scripts should change to using
> > bash. Its behavior is correct and will avoid frustrations.
>
> It'd be nice it I could get rid of it. I have to use
> #!/bin/bash in my scripts, change rxvt (the X11 version)
> because it defaults to sh, use "shell bash" in my .screenrc...
>
> If setup starts using bash, can I get rid of ash, or something
> would still use it ?
Frédéric,
bash should be fully sh-compatible. If you want to replicate the Linux
setup, simply rename /bin/sh to /bin/ash and hardlink (or symlink)
/bin/bash to /bin/sh (you will get a noticeable startup time increase for
your scripts, which was the original reason for the ash package, but I
doubt you'd have too many other problems -- except you won't be able to
detect non-portable shell scripts on Cygwin anymore).
Igor
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