Hello, On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Doug wrote:
On 04/24/2011 11:43 AM, Mike Coday wrote:
You're missing 'dash' here, the default /bin/sh on Debian and decendant systems like Ubuntu, which acts a lot more like a Bourne shell than a bash in POSIX mode.
Bourne /bin/sh sh Bourne Again /bin/bash bash C shell /bin/csh csh TC shell /bin/tcsh tcsh Korn shell /bin/ksh ksh Z shell /bin/zsh zsh
All these except the [t]c shell (and a real /bin/sh) are POSIX compliant and should run /bin/sh scripts just fine. Nonetheless, it is a serious bug writing stuff with #!/bin/sh that's not actually POSIX. For reference to a "bourne" shell: use [d]ash. You'll be surprised. It is NOT a POSIX shell, AFAIR.
(Anything written for the Bourne shell will run in bash without modification, AFAIK.)
As per definition.
One of these is almost surely what she's familiar with, and wouldn't have to learn anything new, and you can set the system so it always starts in one of those shells. (She will know how.)
As long as it's not csh, she'll be quite happy with bash, and you _can_ set her shell to whatever she prefers (e.g. /bin/zsh). HTH, -dnh -- "A priest is either a PFW on the ultimate support line, or a fraud adept at offering bogus answers to difficult problems while holding lusers at bay with arcane ritual." -- Malcolm Ray -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org