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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!pooh!chet From: chet@pooh.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:57:46 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4j9b6q$poj@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> <4j0sto$scs@calypso.bns.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: pooh.ins.cwru.edu In article <4j0sto$scs@calypso.bns.com.au>, Michael Talbot-Wilson <mike@calypso.bns.com.au> wrote: >Er... the bash maintainer says bash is "too big and too slow". That's more a statement of personal philosophy than anything else. Just about every piece of software I use is too big and too slow. The 4.4 BSD sh and tcsh are too big and too slow, too. (Were there too many `toos' in the preceding paragraph for you, too? :-) -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu