On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Steve Beattie wrote:
> Note that in Ubuntu and Debian, /bin/sh is dash, not bash, which is
> more strict in its posix sh(1) conformance ('==' for string
> comparisons is a bashism). Login shells by default use bash, but
> shell scripts, unless explicitly using bash via "#!/bin/bash" will
> by default be interpreted by dash.
>
> The checkbashisms script from the devscripts package on Debian and
> Ubuntu will highlight issues for you.
You can also include "set -o posix" toward the top of your bash
scripts to help enforce POSIX compliance.
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Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
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