Re: [Oorexx-devel] Unix shells

2017-04-22 Thread CVBruce
When UNIX was originally released the default shell was /bin/sh, the Bourne Shell written by Stephen Bourne. Make that the only shell. As new shells were written and added to the system, if they were backward compatible, they would end up having /bin/sh linked to them. I would never expect

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Unix shells

2017-04-20 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Just another remark/question in this context. On Unix operating systems there is an environment variable SHELL defined that gives the fully qualified path to the shell program. AFAIUI this is meant to be the default shell to be used for executing shell scripts, if there is no hashbang line in a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Unix shells

2017-04-19 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Erich Steinböck wrote: > I'm intending to fix [bugs:1430] > with attached patch (which > also fixes the broken no-shell Unix subcommands "command", and "cmd", and > adds subcommand handling

[Oorexx-devel] Unix shells

2017-04-19 Thread Erich Steinböck
I'm intending to fix [bugs:1430] with attached patch (which also fixes the broken no-shell Unix subcommands "command", and "cmd", and adds subcommand handling for shells "dash", "tcsh", and "zsh"). Before doing so, I'd like to discuss two things: 1.