On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: >>> For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered. >> curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at: >> /bin/sh >> in my script's shebang ;) > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 1 17:17 /bin/sh -> bash > > As it should be. The use of a link is not a statement that /bin/sh behaves as bash; the interpreter notes how it was called, and acts to the shell dialect restrictions chosen by how it is invoked. -- Russ herrold
