On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote:
> <SNIP> > > On Ubuntu (and I presume debian): > shu...@edwin:~$ ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-01-03 02:20 /bin/sh -> dash > > On CentOS (and I presume fedora): > [shu...@doris ~]$ ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 5 18:39 /bin/sh -> bash > > == appears to be absent in the dash shell as well as the bourne shell. > I'm not quite sure why bash does it this way. Possibly to be consistent > with other comparison operators, and remove ambiguity with the > assignment symbol. Using the single = would certainly be more portable. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > Probably some other issues where bash did not want to keep all compatibility with sh but did want some of the bash functionality. So they made dash as a sh substitute and avoided having to do some things they did not want in bash. Don't you love religious wars? BTW, we are WAY off topic with respect to the DHCP server fussiness though it is clear how we got here. -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson
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