* Rob OpenSuSE [2009-01-15 14:18]:
That's probably one of the Fedora-ism's that are mentioned in the post about it. Many distro's use a different shell than bash, as a boot optimisation, because well written scripts don't rely on bash specific extensions.
Define well-written. If you rely only on POSIX, you have two problems: - there is no real test shell available that implements POSIX and only POSIX, - you need lots of external tools for everything, which is slow, - sometimes bash-specific syntax is more readable than POSIX syntax. I think dash implements bash-specific syntax and not only POSIX. Not as much as Bash itself, but much more than POSIX. Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org