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RE: Changed handling of "!" in /bin/sh?


Eric Blake wrote on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:18 PM:
> According to Luke Kendall on 1/16/2007 6:53 PM:
>> 
>> Or, copy /bin/ash.exe to replace /bin/sh.exe.
> 
> Not recommended.  The reason cygwin moved to bash as
> /bin/sh was to avoid ash bugs. 

I thought that it was more to avoid all the complaints
that sh did not behave like bash, which is what many
people expected.

- Barry

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