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Re: [SLE] Shell Scripting Problem
- From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardon@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:10:50 -0600
- Message-id: <20020211131050.B29651@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:45:34AM +0000, Stephen Carbin wrote:
> Greetings All,
> Well I guess my problem is that I'm trying to run a script written for
> the Bourne shell on what is really bash. I was hoping that I could work
> on shell scripts at home for my class at U of MD. Since the university
> runs Sun OS v2.6 they don't seem to run on my SuSE 7.3 box. I tried
> reading the man pages for bash, hoping to glean some method of making
> bash pretend to be bourne, but if its there I can't figure it out. Does
> anyone know if it is possible to run scripts written for bourne under
> bash? Is it possible to install the Bourne Shell in SuSE? Are any current
> distro's available with bourne? I really like SuSE so I'll keep it on my
> primary box, but if RedHat or Mandrake, etc... can provide this
> functionality, I'd gladly buy one of them for one of my other home boxes.
> Please point me in the right direction if you can. Thanks,
Bash is compatibl;e with Bourne. In fact Bash is often used as a
replacement for bourne. Send me your script offlist, and I will look it
over. BTW, what university in Maryland do you go to? I used to go to
UMCP.
-v
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Victor R. Cardona
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> Greetings All,
> Well I guess my problem is that I'm trying to run a script written for
> the Bourne shell on what is really bash. I was hoping that I could work
> on shell scripts at home for my class at U of MD. Since the university
> runs Sun OS v2.6 they don't seem to run on my SuSE 7.3 box. I tried
> reading the man pages for bash, hoping to glean some method of making
> bash pretend to be bourne, but if its there I can't figure it out. Does
> anyone know if it is possible to run scripts written for bourne under
> bash? Is it possible to install the Bourne Shell in SuSE? Are any current
> distro's available with bourne? I really like SuSE so I'll keep it on my
> primary box, but if RedHat or Mandrake, etc... can provide this
> functionality, I'd gladly buy one of them for one of my other home boxes.
> Please point me in the right direction if you can. Thanks,
Bash is compatibl;e with Bourne. In fact Bash is often used as a
replacement for bourne. Send me your script offlist, and I will look it
over. BTW, what university in Maryland do you go to? I used to go to
UMCP.
-v
--
Victor R. Cardona
Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 (i386) Professional
GPG key ID E81B3A1C
Key fingerprint = 0147 A234 99C3 F4C5 BC64 F501 654F DB49 E81B 3A1C
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