On 17 Dec 2006, at 02:38, David R. Morrison wrote:
> The reason for the /bin has to do with behaviors of different
> shells in Tiger. Without writing /bin/echo, the 'echo' command is
> processed as a shell built-in, and the results are different for
> bash and tcsh.
You're completely right !
But {Compile,Install,etc...}Script's are always executed under (ba)
sh, no ?
(unless the maintainer specifies differently, knowing what he is
doing...)
similar issue with pogma's :
> It is also okay to use printf -
>
> % printf "string"
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/printf.html
the doc cited is a bit painful to read through...
and 'man printf' doesn't show at all 9at first sight at least)
why the above construct should work... (as it does !).
But printf is a builtin, and `man bash` documents the construct
perfectly.
JF
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