what I get from the profile shell posts is that a profile shell is a convenient alternative to sudo
it seems that for that convenience you pay the price of using only the standard options when using standard utilities since it also seems the most common usage for profile shells is interactive you can check for -P in $- in your $ENV file and add extra aliases to force "foo" to be the builtin foo are there cases where users are forced to use a profile shell? On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:44:10 +0100 Jennifer Pioch wrote: > What if the builtin has more features? This is the common case for > ksh93 in Opensolaris. > Re performance in interactive shells: Did you ever used loops over > many files in interactive mode? This is a COMMON usage.
