# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2004-11-12 04:11:22 +0100:
> The only real problem with having bash as /bin/sh is that people tend
> to write scripts using bash-specific features and forget that such
> scripts are not portable to systems using a less powerful /bin/sh.
Or the other way around. Bash (at least the one from RHEL 3.0) is
seriously broken, these two things are more than it can handle (as
opposed to our /bin/sh):
$(case $foo in
x) do_x;;
y) do_y;;
esac)
out=`mktemp ...`
$otherscript >$out 2&1
where $otherscript contains
$(x | tee /dev/stderr | y)
I stumbled upon these when I was porting periodic(8) to RHEL. So, my
description would be that people run into problems when they write
scripts using sh-specific features and forget that such scripts are
not portable to systems using a less powerful bash. ;)
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