On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Selby wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
David,You are dead right, I tried
At 12:28 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote:
I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ...Your problem is that /bin/sh is ash, not BASH. To get BASH, use /bin/bash
#!/bin/sh
Dave
/bin/bash <script>
and it worked perfectly, but I am afraid I do not understand why ...
echo $BASH_VERSION
Tells me I have bash
Yes, because it's inherited from the parent shell environment, most likely (or you're running the above command from bash). You do have bash installed, but as /bin/bash, *not* /bin/sh.
I call cygwin with ...
c:\cygwin\win\rxvt.exe -e \bin\bash --login -i
ie bash
Yes, you explicitly invoke bash.
Where did ash (a stripped down bash?) come in ?
Dave
When you have the #!/bin/sh line at the top of the script, you're asking the current shell (bash, tcsh, whatever) explicitly to execute the script using /bin/sh (which, on Cygwin, is ash). If you want to ensure the script is executed by bash, use the #!/bin/bash magic at the top of the script. Assuming that /bin/sh = bash is non-portable. Igor
I have #!/bin/sh at the start of my script, so I am running bash as such but the shell script is asking to be interpreted by sh.
Just that in debian woody /bin/sh is linked to /bin/bash so there was no problem
Thanks for the explanation ... Dave
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