[oclug] .bash_profile scripting

Ross Jordan rjordan at numb.ca
Fri Nov 19 13:55:58 EST 2004


It would seem Matthew Wilcox, on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:44:39PM +0000, wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:50:41AM -0800, Ross Jordan wrote:
> > Most of the BSDs have /bin/sh pointing to /bin/csh
> 
> What rubbish.  csh is not compatible with bourne shell scripts, so if
> this were true, 99% of scripts wouldn't run.  It does seem to be true
> that many BSD fans seem to prefer csh to sh, but I think this is for
> other reasons than sh being linked to csh.

Yeah good point. BSDs set the default login shell to /bin/csh. I
somehow confused this with linking /bin/sh to /bin/csh.

-Ross




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