a little script

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:02:22PM -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> >     That depends on how it is run.
> >
> >     If run from the bash command line, or from another bash script, it
> >     will be executed by bash.
> >
> >     If run by at or cron (or pdksh), /bin/sh is used. Which in the
> >     case of linux, is still bash, but the startup files will not be
> >     read (see the INVOCATION section of the man page).
>
> /bin/sh MIGHT be bash on Linux.  Might as well be ash, dash or some
> other posix compliant shell.  And even when it is bash it doesn't behave
> like bash, it tries to behave more like plain sh.

    It enters posix mode rather than behave like "plain" sh.

    There's very little difference in how it behaves after startup
    files have been read.

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