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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:28:47 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000918202847.A1406@nc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000916083545.H27034@speedy.gsinet>; from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:35:45AM %2B0200
References:  <200009150310.OAA26100@lightning.itga.com.au> <20000915211957.A1285@nc.rr.com> <20000916083545.H27034@speedy.gsinet>

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Gerhard Sittig:
 |On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 21:19 -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
 |> 
 |> [ ... shell's -A option ... ]
 |> 
 |> Reason I asked is my /bin/sh on IRIX at work has set -A.
 |
 |You might invoke the shell with /bin/sh, but that doesn't mean
 |it's really a Bourne shell.  Maybe 'file /bin/sh' and 'ls -li
 |/bin/*sh' will tell you something.

You're right.  Thanks.  
That's the kind of thing I'd expect from Linux, not IRIX ;-)

> ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys          13 Dec  1  1999 /bin/sh -> ../../sbin/sh*
> ls -l /sbin/sh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys      760252 Sep 10 14:21 /sbin/sh*
> ls -l /bin/ksh
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys          13 Dec  1  1999 /bin/ksh -> ../../sbin/sh*

-- 
Randall Hopper
aa8vb@nc.rr.com


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