On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Tue 27 Nov 2007 13:37:50 NZDT +1300, John Carter wrote:
ubuntu of late. Debian has ported all their startup stuff to pure
"sh", so they have switched to "/bin/sh" === "/bin/dash" because it's
faster than bash so Ubuntu/Debian boots faster.
Do yo
On Tue 27 Nov 2007 13:37:50 NZDT +1300, John Carter wrote:
> ubuntu of late. Debian has ported all their startup stuff to pure
> "sh", so they have switched to "/bin/sh" === "/bin/dash" because it's
> faster than bash so Ubuntu/Debian boots faster.
Do you have numbers for this difference? Can you
Yes, that is definitely something to try. A good rule of thumb when
writing your own bash scripts is to ALWAYS put #!/bin/bash unless
you're certain that your script is fully compatible with the bourne
shell, and doesn't use any bash specific features.
On 27/11/2007, at 1:37 PM, John Carte
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Kerry Mayes wrote:
The following shell script is producing an error saying that
"basename" is not found:
--
#!/bin/sh
I don't know is this is your problem in life... it may be.
I'm getting a really good supply of small sh scripting niggles out of
