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

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Fri, April 24, 2015 12:04 pm, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 4/24/2015 9:47 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> On 04/24/2015 03:57 AM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
>>> if you leave it out the script will run in whatever environment it
>>> currently is in.
>>
>> I'm reasonably certain that a script with no shebang will run with
>> /bin/sh.  I interpret your statement to mean that if a user is using
>> ksh and enters the path to such a script, it would also run in ksh.
>> That would only be true if you "sourced" the script from your shell.
>
> oh fun, just did some tests (using c6.latest).   if you're in bash,
> ./script (sans shebang) runs it in bash.  if you're in dash or csh,
> ./script runs it in sh.    if you're in ksh, it runs it in ksh.
>

Wow! Surprise ;-)

I just tested it on my FreeBSD workstation, and all works as expected
(i.e. the script obeys shebang). Just in case, here is the contents of my
test script:


########
#!/bin/sh

readlink /proc/$$/file
########

( note that that "file" is because I'm using FreeBSD /proc, for Linux you
may need to replace the line with something like:

readlink /proc/$$/exe

Now the fun part

in bash:

$ echo $0
bash

$ ./test
/bin/sh

in tcsh

% echo $0
tcsh

% ./test
/bin/sh

in zsh

% echo $0
zsh

% ./test
/bin/sh

But yet funnier thing:

$ bash ./test
/usr/local/bin/bash

$ tcsh ./test
/bin/tcsh

$ zsh ./test
/usr/local/bin/zsh


Well, no creepy surprises for me ! ;-)

(you can do the same on Linux of your choice and see if it behaves ;-)

Thanks.
Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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