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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
Date: 22 Mar 1996 00:20:36 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:

> Anyway, I'm not impressed by the notion that, within FreeBSD
> itself, they've come to rely on the incompatibilities of their
> shell....unless you're going to tell me that it blows because of
> errors in the implementation of bash?

bash is at least as broken as the 4.4BSD ash.  Both try to be Posix-
compliant, i.e., the feature allot of things from the ksh.  Both have
command line editing (even better than the Real ksh), but ash doesn't
suffer from too much featurism.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)