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Subject: Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
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On Tue, 2005-Nov-29 13:34:12 -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
>/bin/sh on FreeBSD is /bin/sh, the original Bourne shell.

Not quite.  The FreeBSD shell has a number extensions beyond the
original Bourne shell - it's more like the Korn shell.  The aim is to
make the FreeBSD shell a full POSIX shell.

-- 
Peter Jeremy