also you would wanna add requires: bash for initscripts rpm.
not sure how portable initscripts package was designed to be, would anyone
ever use it outside redhat? if not making a commitment to bash could be
reasonable.
just my .02
v
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> The reason that normal startup scripts don't, is that there's no guarantee
> /bin/sh will point to bash, or even that bash is installed.
>
> If you want to use bash, the first line should be /bin/bash instead of
> /bin/sh, so it's obvious it needs bash specifically.
>
> Jon
>
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Manoj Kumar wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason not to use bash features in init
> > scripts?
> > Consider, for example, this fragment from
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post:
> >
> > DEVICETYPE=`echo $DEVICE | sed "s/[0-9]*$//"`
> > REALDEVICE=`echo $DEVICE | sed 's/:.*//g'`
> > if echo $DEVICE | grep -q ':' ; then
> > ISALIAS=yes
> > else
> > ISALIAS=no
> > fi
> >
> > In bash we can do this much faster with something like
> > this:
> >
> > DEVICETYPE=$DEVICE
> > while [[ $DEVICETYPE == *[0-9] ]]; do
> > DEVICETYPE=${DEVICETYPE%[0-9]}
> > done
> > REALDEVICE=${DEVICE%%:*}
> > if [[ $DEVICE == *:* ]]; then
> > ISALIAS=yes
> > else
> > ISALIAS=no
> > fi
> >
> > Okay, the loop that replaces the first line is messy,
> > but it saves
> > a couple of forks and an exec. The other two changes
> > are both
> > simpler and faster.
> >
> > So why do most init scripts use sed and grep to
> > process
> > strings? It can't be a desire to allow them to work
> > with the
> > Bourne shell (why would we want that anyway?) because
> > some
> > scripts do use bash features.
> >
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