Bash scripting problems

Jorge Fábregas fabregasj at prtc.net
Sat Jan 8 22:43:01 UTC 2005


On Saturday 08 January 2005 5:45 pm, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Yes, but bash acts differently in that case:
>
>        If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries  to  mimic  the
> startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while
> conforming to the POSIX standard as well
> <snip>

I didn't know this.  Thanks for that Matthew. Very well explained!

Jorge





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