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? >> >> 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? >> > 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. mark