On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 14:31 -0600, Eric Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > /bin/sh is *not* a bash script > > /bin/sh is *whatever* your default shell would be > > I certainly hope not. I've worked on plenty of Unix machines where > the default shell was csh or tcsh, but if /bin/sh had been csh or a > link to it, all hell would have broken loose. > > /bin/sh had bloody well better be something that is compatible with > the Bourne shell. > > Eric On F17, and on the last solaris I used (5 years ago), /bin/sh was a link and has been one for many years in Unix land. For example on my system right now: ls -al /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Mar 18 11:28 /bin/sh -> bash -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
