On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Fred James <[email protected]>wrote:
> Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > I just found this: > > $ ls -l /bin/sh > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-06-10 16:51 /bin/sh -> dash > > > > On another system sh -> bash, so that I just assumed... > > > > what is dash, he asks, and wonders if it bears on this issue. > > > Denis Heidtmann > The '->' means that '/bin/sh' is linked to 'dash' (the 'l' in > 'lrwxrwxrwx') ... see 'man ln' for more detail. > Regards > Fred James > I understand the link. My question is really about the characteristics and behavior of dash. On (someone else's particular) Debian system bash is a newer version and sh links to bash. The fundamental question is: How can I pass an argument to sourced script in dash when the script is specified using its fully qualified path? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
