On Son, 2009-01-04 at 22:50 -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:15:30 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: [...] > > ACK. A bash can IMHO be expected. Even going for `dash` is IMHO somewhat > > too extreme. > > I have yet to encounter a system that uses dash _without_ bash. (All ubuntu Hmm, should be doable with a chroot environment quite cheap and simple. > variants, even jeos, install bash by default. They moved the /bin/sh symlink Yes, I know (small) embedded systems that have a bash (and not "only" one of busybox shells). It eases writing somewhat fast shell scripts without the need for lots of fork()s+exec()s too ..... Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html