On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:17 +0200, Dan Muresan wrote: > Wherever Linux goes, bash goes too... except for embedded busyboxy > systems, where everything is customized by hand anyway.
No one ever said you couldn't write shell scripts in bash rather than in sh, even on Ubuntu. You just have to use #!/bin/bash at the top, not #!/bin/sh. Truth in scripting! On the other hand, I think you're underestimating the types of software that would go on an embedded busybox system: I run PXE-booted systems on blades that have 8+ cores and 24+G RAM, and 10gig ethernet interfaces. And they use busybox (because who wants to waste ramdisk space on a full GNU toolset? I NEED that memory for other things). And they use a bunch of other tools that I would dearly love to not have to "customize by hand". It's one of the banes of my (professional) life, all the scripts out there for tools I want to install on my blades, written by people who think if it runs on Red Hat it's done and that sh == bash (... and who think they can write their own makefiles/configure environments that are as good as or better than the GNU autotools--but that's a topic for another day). I personally am very grateful to Ubuntu for taking the high road here and forcing some sanity and consideration back into the scripting culture. Little by little things ARE getting better. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
