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[Edd Barrett]

Hi Oliver,

How are you?

On 23/05/07, Oliver Bandel <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> reading this is strange...

=) I aim to please.

>
> shells were invented to have a flexible system....

try:

ls &> somefile in ksh. Does it work? Nope. Shells are _different_!

We call the above a "bashism"

>
> When reading this text one is tempted to prefer binaries,
> specialized for the target platform in general.

eh? Scripting languages are platform independant? The guys at [insert
language here] have compiled against native libraries and done the
hard work for you.

>
> Isn't bash installed on most systems?
>

By default on OpenBSD no. You can install it using the package
manager. We have ksh and sh installed by default.

>
> Should we go back and use sh instead?

Most linux systems seem to think it is ok to ln -s /usr/bin/bash
/bin/sh. Do you?

Thanks for the prompt reply!

-- 
Best Regards

Edd

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