Will --
...and then Will Yardley said...
% David T-G wrote:
% > Aha! I don't use BSD (yet), so I don't have access to that, or at
% > least hadn't thought to search the web for a copy of the freebsd sh
% > man page. My linux system doesn't even have a man page for sh,
% > preferring info or whatever it is, and Solaris doesn't mention it at
% > all.
%
% most linux distributions (all??) come with /bin/sh linked to bash.
Yep.
% however bash is supposed to be able to do anything the bourne shell can
Yes, and then some.
% do, no? if that's the case you should be able to do the same thing,
% probably in a pretty much identical way.
Exactly.
%
% it seems kind of silly to me - i rarely use the bourne shell but i like
% the fact that it's there in bsd systems (and that if i specify /bin/sh
% that's exactly what i'm getting).
No, it's not silly at all -- /bin/sh is one of the things that can be
found on any unix system, and shell scripts are so basically fundamental
that they will be necessary everywhere and you might even be expected to
take your own scripts and move them from box to box.
Doing away with /bin/sh would be a Very Bad Thing.
%
% try checking the bash man pages.
I did; I don't have those, either :-(
%
% w
Thanks a bunch!
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