Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:13:36 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201251710580.12901@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <ac1be76b3dd10516e61861ae253b793f.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <ac1be76b3dd10516e61861ae253b793f.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Doug Poland wrote: > I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally > written on Darwin (OS X). > > The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is > #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and > the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I have bash in > /usr/local/bin/bash. > > Is there an "easy/best" way to have a single shebang that works on > both OS's? I'd rather not change FreeBSD's bourne shell to bash with > any symlinking of /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/sh. Turns out that causes mysterious problems: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29088
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