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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? In-Reply-To: bill@twwells.com's message of Thu, 21 Mar 1996 03:45:17 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdbulqsaix.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Lines: 17 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> <4ipn36$3aq@adv.iaehv.nl> <DoLMFH.6Dp@twwells.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:58:46 GMT Our friend, bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells), wrote: > 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.... You call readline a _benefit_???? *boggle* Soren