On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:13:10AM +0200, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: > > The question: > > > > Is there a switch that I can use to make bash run in some sort of > > compatibility mode for the string comparison? I.e, can I somehow > > force bash (in the script) to behave like before? > > Low-tech solution: can't you just install bash 3.1 manually somewhere, > create a symlink /bin/bash31 to it, and put #!/bin/bash31 at the > beginning of your scripts?
Yes I could.. but the amount of work it takes for me to do that and remember that I did it is probably comparable to going back and updating all my shell scripts. Thanks for the suggestion. W -- Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. ~Dale Carnegie Sortir en Pantoufles: up 337 days, 13:42 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list