[CentOS] OT - Any true bourne shells out there for linux?

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Tue Nov 9 03:34:09 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:39:22PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/08/10 3:13 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Phil Savoie<psavoie1783 at rogers.com>  wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Was wondering if anyone knows there are any separate rpms to be able to
> 
> I thought it did that by default if it was invoked as /usr/bin/sh via 
> the link ?
> 
Doesn't seem to do so, with my strenuous test of typing sh then trying
echo $UID.  The true Bourne shell doesn't have that (which messed
me up once when forgetting that and working on an AIX box.  I think
that's when I discovered that UID is a bash-ism and not a sh-ism. 

Note that that is the only test I did--it might be that everything else
is perfect. 

IIRC, back when that happened (writing something portable and needing to
test syntax), I got the best results with dash.

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