Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: From: "Eddelbuettel, Dirk" To: "'earnie_boyd@yahoo.com'" , "D. Richard Hipp" Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: "sed" bug? Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:59:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > I don't understand. "sh" is "bash" on both Linux and > Cygwin20, is it not? I'm not running csh if that is > what you are asking. > No!! On both systems sh is _NOT_ bash. sh is ash which was written specifically for Linux to be a lightweight shell in order to increase processing speed. I think that statement is wrong as far as Linux is concerned. AFAIK most Linux distrinutions still default to l/bin/sh (soft-)linked to /bin/bash. Speaking for Debian, we have tried to purge all bashism from the boot scripts, and a few developers have /bin/sh linked to /bin/ash. They appear to be happy with the speedups at boot time. I'm lazy and stick with bash. After all, I don't reboot that often :-> Also, I just checked with my Debian source cd - according to the file TOUR, dated 1989, ash is older than Linux. The sources stem from the NetBSD side of things. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com