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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ
Message-ID: <DoLMFH.6Dp@twwells.com>
References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> <4ipn36$3aq@adv.iaehv.nl>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 03:45:17 GMT
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In article <4ipn36$3aq@adv.iaehv.nl>, Arjan de Vet <devet@adv.IAEhv.nl> wrote:
: Smaller? When I compile bash with config.h.mini, statically linked and
: stripped, and compare it with the statically linked and stripped /bin/sh I
: get (on 2.0.5):
:
: -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  290816 Mar 20 20:35 bash
: -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin    299008 Jun 10  1995 sh

Yeah, smaller. I use the full-blown version for my shell. If one
is going to all the trouble of using bash, one might as well get
all the benefits....