On 10/30/2012 07:21 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
So the question is, should the scripts that come with context (like
the installer) be explicit and become #! /bin/bash ?
Hans
If you're depending on specific syntax or features of bash, that would
be the way to go. I suspect most/all Linux and BSD distributions come
with bash, even if it's not the default shell.
Solaris or HPUX or AIX not so much. Since I didn't always have root, I
couldn't install bash even if I wanted to so I stuck to Bourne shell.
KSH93 is a superset but 100% upwards compatible so anything written for
the Bourne shell will run as expected. Not quite sure what PDKSH does.
--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA
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