On 20 July 2017 at 17:41, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote:

> On 07/20/2017 05:31 AM, George N. White III wrote:
>
>>
>> Rigid adherence to a standard is often overkill.  Bashisms have been a
>> practical problem for systems that use dash for /bin/sh.
>>
>
> My understanding is that when bash is invoked as sh, it acts exactly as sh
> itself would, so that only those builtin commands that are in sh are
> available.  Judging by what you write, this seems not to be the case any
> more.


I don't recall the details, but problem scripts may well have had "#!
/bin/bash" before the decision
to use dash.


-- 
George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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