A difference between dash and bash is the echo command : you can't escape characters : "\\n" always print a newline with dash, whereas it prints "\n" with bash.
It make a huge difference in Makefiles, that default to /bin/sh shell, unless you specify the SHELL variable in the Makefile. For exemple, glibc makefiles are broken and I couldn't compile it out of the box with Edgy :-( -- Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink https://launchpad.net/bugs/61463 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
