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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:32:52 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "set -A" Bourne script - a nogo on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000918213252.F367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000918202847.A1406@nc.rr.com>; from aa8vb@nc.rr.com on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:28:47PM -0400
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:28:47PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Or you could RTFM. The IRIX sh(1) pages says quite clearly that it is
a Korn shell. IIRC, you want /bin/bsh.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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