From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:36:45 GMT
Subject: Re: /bin/sh portability question
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In-Reply-To: <20050925192608.GD19023@schottelius.org>

On Sun, September 25, 2005 3:26 pm, Nico -telmich- Schottelius said:

> I think it's a bad idea, because some systems do not have and want bash,
> because it's unneeded. On all systems here we've ash as /bin/sh and
> /bin/zsh as primary user shell. Thus, /bin/bash does not exist, because
> it's not as comfortable as zsh and not as small as ash.

Hi Nico,

My guess is that your system configuration is in the minority and that
most target systems have bash installed today.  But all you'd have to do
is make a link from /bin/zsh to /bin/bash, or use the SHELL_PATH variable
to change all the scripts to /bin/zsh at install time.

Sean