On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:45:46 -0400 > Peter Schaffter <pe...@schaffter.ca> wrote: > > Something similar but more robust and not reliant on a particular > > shell interpreter would be better. > > I just took a look, Peter, because I have some experience writing > Bourne shell scripts. I don't see anything bash-specific, just > looking over it. You might just change #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh; > I think it will run pretty well, maybe perfectly.
On Debian derivatives, dash(1) has a bug in its signal handling, hence !#/bin/bash rather than the generic !#/bin/sh. In turn, bash(1) requires the bash-specific 'set -o posix' in order for ctrl-C to work. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
