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walt wrote: |
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> On 09/20/2009 05:40 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> walt wrote: |
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>>> In linux bash is the default shell (even sh is a symlink to bash) |
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>>> but in |
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>>> other OS's other default shells prevail. |
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> |
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> Okay, okay, Alan, you're right, I have not tried every linux distro |
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> out there, |
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> but when I was a linux noob I tried every one I could find. Back then |
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> that was |
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> Debian, SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake (since morphed into something else), |
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> and very |
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> recently Ubuntu, just to see what all the fuss was about. (I'm |
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> sticking with |
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> gentoo.) |
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> |
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> All of those use(d) bash as the default shell, but may have switched |
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> while I |
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> wasn't looking. Bash *appears* to be the official shell of GNU, as |
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> its home |
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> page is hosted there: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ |
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> |
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> BTW, all of the above distros including gentoo are officially |
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> un-endorsed by |
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> GNU: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/common-distros.html |
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Actually, /bin/bash is a symlink -> /bin/dash on Ubuntu so dash (Debian |
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ash) is the default shell on Ubuntu (and either dash or ash is on |
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Debian). I found that out the hard way when I was scripting and some |
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bash stuff wouldn't work properly. |
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Eric Martin |
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