Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 16:20:41 -0500 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Variable assignment in sh Message-ID: <509f51fbc72e12243ed86f15fb9d60fe.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701311445520.54303@wonkity.com> References: <b831bd9e40321e59910ea8913c7a6302.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170131161824.a9f1ef46.freebsd@edvax.de> <b553c644fccc211f9658b31cfe65e8a0.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170131185103.7f911dfb.freebsd@edvax.de> <5f51e2c3bdb8a20c6a7786c2b345c957.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701311445520.54303@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, January 31, 2017 16:51, Warren Block wrote:
>
> It's important to note that shells are two things, an interactive user
> interface, and a shell script interpreter. Thanks to a rich
> selection,
> one program does not have to be used for both. For example, I use csh
> along with a large autocompletion file and some aliases and it works
> very well for that. I would not write scripts for csh, though,
> because
> the built-in script implementation is not great. Not a problem, since
> just putting #!/bin/sh as the first line of a script causes it to run
> with the standard sh interpreter.
>
I do not alter the root account in any way other that to allow logins
and ssh is configured to only accept passwordless logins for root.
When I have need to login as root then I run bash from the default
shell and do my work there.
I have dealt with cron by specifying SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash in
root's crontab. I am not fond of shell scripts although I have
written many. Most of what I put into cron jobs are one-liner shell
commands and in my case I have written these for bash.
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