Will --
...and then Will Yardley said...
% David T-G wrote:
% > > it seems kind of silly to me - i rarely use the bourne shell but i
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% >
% > No, it's not silly at all -- /bin/sh is one of the things that can be
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% > Doing away with /bin/sh would be a Very Bad Thing.
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% agreed. i meant it was kind of silly that linux uses bash instead of
% the bourne shell. i was certainly not trying to suggest that we abolish
% the bourne shell!
Ah :-) Well, you can't use the Bourne shell without proper licensing,
and GNU/Linux is all about free stuff. There's a written-from-scratch
PDksh public domain ksh out there, but bash is the only ready-today free
sh clone (and then some :-) out there.
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% w
:-D
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