[CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

[Pete Geenhuizen]

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?
>
> With sh being a link to bash in Centos I don't know if it would
> explode if the link was changed to something else, but at least
> the scripts we made on our own that run certain services could
> be changed and tested manually to another shell.
>
> Are there other people who have experience in this and can
> provide interesting guidance?
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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.

Pete

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