From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 03:50:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA29841 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 03:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts8-180.indigo.ie [194.125.133.180]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA29834 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 03:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA07610; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:30:03 GMT X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:28:26 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@networx.ie Subject: Re: Bug in /bin/sh To: Rashid Karimov Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This script executes properly using /bin/sh on a Mips M/120 running RISC/os 4.5. The bug would appear to have been introduced in the FreeBSD version of /bin/sh? On Tue, 2 Jul 1996 13:25:15 -0400 (EDT) Rashid Karimov wrote: > it is well known that classic "sh" is buggy. > It fails for example on some complex "configure" > scripts ... can't recall the name of the product, > I think it's something from GNU project. > > Use bash instead. Mike ---