In my small education in UNIX/Linux shells, I believe that I read that some shells will change their behavior depending on the name that they are invoked with. /bin/sh has behaviors defined in POSIX standards, and on many Linux systems is linked to bash. When invoked by /bin/sh it takes on the POSIX behaviors. I would assume that dash would do the same, but I don’t know that for sure.
What that means is that certain language features that are available when invoked by the true name cease to work when invoked by the alias name. I believe this is documented on the shell man page. Bruce Sent by Magic! > On Sep 12, 2022, at 2:44 AM, Erich Steinböck <erich.steinbo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Leslie, > I think when this was last discussed it was agreed that nowadays typically sh > would be a link to the preferred shell. > Like on my old Ubuntu it is /bin/sh -> dash > > With this ooRexx won't have to create new environments dedicated to a > specific shell and users could consistently code address sh or address "" > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
