clone 619082 -1 retitle -1 dash: package description does not explain goals well severity -1 minor submitter -1 ! quit
Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: [out of order for convenience] > If you put: > SHELL=/bin/something > at the begining of your crontab, all the lines will be run with your > prefered shell. Ah, that's excellent! I should have checked crontab(5). > I think that is "dash" is supposed to replace bash, it should implement > $RANDOM... but this is only my personal opinion :-) Ah, interesting --- dash is not intended to replace bash but now that I check I see the current package description suggests it might be. By contrast, Herbert's webpage says: DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. >From this we see that dash is meant to to be * POSIX-compliant * small * reasonably fast Meanwhile bash is more powerful and definitely has its place (especially for features like programmatic completion imho). The package could use some help from a wordsmith to convey: - for a full-featured, bash-compatible shell, see the "bash" package. :) - for a POSIX compliance checker, see the "posh" package. Thanks for a useful reminder. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
