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
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