Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:35:52 -0500 (EST) From: vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes Message-ID: <20120126043552.E9859BF90@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <ac1be76b3dd10516e61861ae253b793f.squirrel@email.polands.org> (doug@polands.org) References: <ac1be76b3dd10516e61861ae253b793f.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:08:07 -0600,
>> "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> said:
D> I'm trying port some shell scripts to FreeBSD that were originally
D> written on Darwin (OS X). The issue I'm having is the shebang line of
D> the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an
D> instance of bash, and the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I
D> have bash in /usr/local/bin/bash.
D> Is there an "easy/best" way to have a single shebang that works on both
D> OS's? I'd rather not change FreeBSD's bourne shell to bash with any
D> symlinking of /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/sh.
Do you have the Korn shell installed? I've found that to be a nice
compromise for scripts that have bash-isms.
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