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 References: <200009150310.OAA26100@lightning.itga.com.au> <20000915211957.A1285@nc.rr.com> <20000916083545.H27034@speedy.gsinet> <20000918202847.A1406@nc.rr.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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