On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Doug McLaren wrote:

> |    o /bin/sh != sh; /bin/sh == bash. Lame. Nonstandard. Result: broken shell
> |      scripts and nonportable code.
> | 
> | I'll grant him this point, my /bin/sh does link to bash. I don't think
> | I've ever had a shell script fail on me because of this,
> | though. Non-issue?
> 
> Broken shell scripts and non portable code are the result of lame
> programmers, not Linux's use of bash.  He must never have seen AIX!

   NetBSD uses ash and csh for most everything, Linux uses Bash, and AIX
uses the Korn shell.  There are differences between them.  AIX uses
nothing but regular Korn shell which has very well documented behavior. 

   Adam

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