On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:17:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Marc Chantreux wrote: > > that is a point which surprise me : i understand the dash for a posix > > and lightweight attitude but why use bash as "modern shell" ? why not > > perl or zsh (which are both more powerfull) ? > > Well, as long as you don't start using stuff that breaks often, or that > loads a ton of crap dynamically, or (even worse) is in /usr instead of /bin > or /sbin... > > Note that using dash is probably MUCH faster than perl. I don't know about > zsh.
Well, writing scripts that use /bin/sh or perl means that the init script will run without any dependencies on optional packages. zsh is Priority: optional... And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh scripts should work with dash too. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
