On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:58 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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> FWIW, /bin/sh is usually a symlink to bash, and it makes bash behave like  
> the original Bourne Shell.

For some definition of "usually".  On Debian and Ubuntu /bin/sh is a
symbolic link to dash not bash.

> I typically find /bin/sh features to be enough for implementing most  
> scripts.

And the only guaranteed portable script -- assuming Windows without
Cygwin or MSYS is excluded !

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