Re: What to do about bashisms?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 01:33:12PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
>What do we do with bashisms? I just encountered some in /usr/sbin/systune.
>It doesn't work correctly with sh=ash. Is this a bug?
If the script uses non-bourne features it should begin with #!/bin/bash,
as recommended by the debian policy. If it doesn't then it means that
enforcing the policy by linking /bin/sh to something closer to a bare-bones
bourne shell than bash would help people with writing more portable scripts.
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