On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:02:56AM -0400, mark wrote: > On 04/24/15 06:57, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: > > > >On 04/24/15 06:07, E.B. wrote: > >>I'm sure most people here know about Dash in Debian. Have there > >>been discussions about providing a more efficient shell in Centos > >>for use with heavily invoked non-interactive scripts? > >> > >>Are there other people who have experience in this and can > >>provide interesting guidance? > >> > >Why go to that extreme if you tell a script on line 1 which shell to run it > >will do so. > >#!/bin/dash > >or what ever shell you want it to run in. I always do that to make sure that > >the script runs as expected, if you leave it out the script will run in > >whatever environment it currently is in. > > > > I'm confused here, too, and this has been bugging me for some time: > why sh, when almost 20 years ago, at places I've worked, production > shell scripts went from sh to ksh. It was only after I got into the > CentOS world in '09 that I saw all the sh scripts again. Wasn't Solaris, which for awhile at least, was probably the most popular Unix, using ksh by default? -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6