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   From: ts    
   Subject: Re: 6.10 defaults to "dash" for shell?   
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   On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:33:35 +0100, mark south wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:27:58 -0600, ts wrote:   
   >    
   >> If you write a Bash   
   >> script, you should ensure that it is invoked by bash.  Writing a bash   
   >> script and expecting /bin/sh to understand it is just plain broken.   
   >    
   > Indeed.  But writing bash and requiring bash alone is clearly a different   
   > meaning of "portable" from the one I am accustomed to, and more in line   
   > with the "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy of "portability".   
      
   I'm not advocating writing scripts that depend on bash-specific syntax,   
   merely accepting that they exist.  Now, back to the original topic.    
   Assume you have two bash-specific scripts, one which starts with #!/bin/sh   
   and one which starts with #!/bin/bash.  Which one is more portable?   
      
    -ts   
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