From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 28 1:38:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (210-55-152-99.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.152.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D817215453 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 01:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@freebsddiary.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA63207; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:37:45 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199907280837.UAA63207@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Terry Lambert Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:37:46 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Reply-To: dan@freebsddiary.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199907272314.QAA00814@usr01.primenet.com> References: <379D20CA.F7EC7E15@execpc.com> from "Len Huppe" at Jul 26, 99 10:00:26 pm X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27 Jul 99, at 23:14, Terry Lambert wrote: > > As a newcomer to FreeBSD, I am intersted in knowing why so many of you > > *hate* bash. > > Speaking for myself, it's because people who don't know better > depend upon its features, rendering shell scripts non-portable. > > In order to run these scripts, you have to install bash. > > In order to do that, you have to run "configure". > > In order to do that, you have to install GNU "make". > > ... > > It's a hellish web of interdependency, which could have been > avoided, had no one installed bash. Ummmm, might I introduce you to: http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/shell.htm You'll see that the above is not correct. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message