William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Dr. David Kirkby
> <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
>>
>> I keep seeing the above message from Sage on Solaris. Is this normal on
>> linux? /bin/sh does exist on Solaris, as does /usr/bin/sh, since
>> /usr/bin and /bin are linked.
>
> I think
>
>   "/bin/sh: source: not found"
>
> means that the /bin/sh program is outputing the error message "source:
> not found".  I.e., some shell script is trying do run the "source"
> command on some file foo, perhaps "source foo" and foo doesn't exist.
>  Or something like that.

The problem is that `source` is a bashism.  We should be using `.`
instead.  On most platforms sh is a link to bash so this problem doesn't
show up.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

-Ivan


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