[geeks] bash string matching

[Phil Stracchino]

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> I have seen to many "shell scripts" written by Linux weenies that start
> with "#!/bin/sh" but are actually bash scripts...

Because /bin/sh on most out-of-the-box Linux distros is just a symlink
to /bin/bash.

> A bourne shell, that limits it self mostly to the POSIX spec, is
> the /bin/sh of NetBSD. It is available on Linux as "ash" or as part of
> busybox.

I don't remember where I got my /bin/sh from, but it really is a
/bin/sh, not a link to /bin/bash.


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