Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bourne Shell, is pretty much replaced by Bash since several years ago. > For example, as far as i know, linuxes today don't have Bourne Shell > anymore. “sh” is just a alias to bash with some compatibility > parameter.
That used to be the case, but these days 'sh' is as often an alias to a lighter shell program, a free reimplementation of sh that includes a much smaller superset of the original sh functionality than that of bash. For example, on default Ubuntu installations, sh is a symlink to dash, "a lightweight POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
