Neat tip from Mark.  I'll hafta keep that in mind.

Note that your /bin/sh has the same size and date as your /bin/ksh.

> ...
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 246686 Apr  4  2005 ksh
> ...
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 246686 Apr  4  2005 sh
> ...

While I categorically refuse to use shell extensions in scripts,
I know that some (most?) distributors employ BASH extensions.
(To which end they SHOULD have coded "#!/bin/bash" instead of
"#!/bin/sh" in whatever script(s) have such dependencies.)

Probably someone  (and you said they're not admitting it)
had a preference for KSH and made a copy.  Should have been
a link,  better,  should have been left alone.  And yeah
you can ding the distributor for sloppy coding there too.

-- R;

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