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Bill Havanki commented on ACCUMULO-2423: ---------------------------------------- I much prefer bash over sh. bash 3 is certainly an acceptable minimum. Like Christopher said, bash 4 isn't shipped with Mac OS X ... [even Mavericks is still on 3.2|http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/100915/what-version-of-bash-comes-with-osx-10-9-mavericks]. However, it's easy to get it via [Homebrew|http://brew.sh] or [MacPorts|http://macports.org] so it's not that unreasonable to require it there. > Converge Shell scripts on single implementation > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: ACCUMULO-2423 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2423 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 1.6.0 > Reporter: Mike Drob > > Do we want to have a stated dependency on a particular shell? Most of our > scripts explicitly use bash, but some use sh. Most scripts invoke > {{#\!/usr/bin/env bash}} but some do {{#\!/bin/bash}} or other crazy things. > I don't have a particular preference which way we go, but I'd like to see us > standardize one way or the other. > If we use {{/bin/sh}}, then we can run everything through the > [checkbashisms|https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh#I_am_a_developer._How_can_I_avoid_this_problem_in_future.3F] > script (also available for other distros) > If we go the other way, and switch everything to bash, then we can run them > through {{ksh -n}} for deprecation warnings. I know that's a different shell, > but they're still moderately useful. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)