On 8/7/07, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Chris Pickett wrote:
>
> > I think we have a bigger problem than /bin/ksh: Does Indiana or
> > Opensolaris want to address the problem that Opensolaris still uses
> > the original bourne shell as /bin/sh? Most modern Unices use either
> > bash or ksh as /bin/sh
>
> This is well known to be an area fraught with religion.  Having said
> that, my impression is that a large majority of the linux community,
> and substantially all of the OS X community, live in bash, which is /
> bin/sh.  I bet that quite a few of the younger linux & mac geeks
> don't even know there are other shells :)   Early releases of OS X
> had tcsh and that provoked much beating of breasts and gnashing of
> teeth until they switched to bash.  -Tim

But this all happened before Apple integrated ksh into OSX.

Irek
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