From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 09:47:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22895 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 09:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA22868 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 09:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id SAA28978; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 18:46:59 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (RAA00688); Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:04:14 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199607031704.RAA00688@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Bug in /bin/sh To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:04:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rashid@rk.ios.com In-Reply-To: <199607021725.NAA12316@rk.ios.com> from "Rashid Karimov" at Jul 2, 96 01:25:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > it is well known that classic "sh" is buggy. Yes, but /bin/sh in FreeBSD is not the classic "sh", it's "ash" (from Kenneth Almquist) > 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. Or the real AT&T ksh93, or pdksh (they are a bit more standard than bash - of course, on supported Unices, not in Linuxland). -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky