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From: "Roy A. Gilmore" <royg@pinsight.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /bin/sh isn't Bourne shell
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 01:11:47 -0800
Organization: RAGged Software
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Ed Randall wrote:
>
> Soren Dayton (csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote:
> : Our friend, ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall), wrote:
>
> : > ...[deleted]...
>
> : sounds like a ksh to me... but you knew that.
>
> /bin/ksh is the ksh which I installed; but /bin/sh is the /bin/sh
> that installed from the FreeBSD2.1.0-R distribution.
> It's this /bin/sh that I'm complaining about, not pdksh !
>
> Read the man page on sh(1); Search for "ENV" and "alias". Those words are
> there, I don't think they should be !
>
> What is the /bin/sh that comes with 2.1.0-R by default ?
> How do I disable the extended "features" in it ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
Ed,
The /bin/sh that ships with FreeBSD 2.1.0-R is, as far as I can tell,
the same /bin/sh that ships with the <stock> 4.4BSD-Lite distribution.
So, complaints should more properly be addressed to CSRG at Berkeley.
As a work-around for your problem with aliases, in the man page it
says that your $ENV file you should include code something like this:
case $- in *i*)
# commands for interactive use only
...
esac
If you bracket your aliases this way, they won't be read for shell
scripts.
Hope this helps,
RAG
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