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Date:      Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:57:09 -0500
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.
Message-ID:  <20071215065435.741B.A38C9147@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071215010359.GA13564@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
References:  <20071214175906.D727.A38C9147@seibercom.net> <20071215010359.GA13564@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>

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> On December 14, 2007 at 08:03PM Frank Shute wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >
> > > On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote:
> > 
> > [ snip ]
> > 
> > > I'm happy with sh as the system shell though; it's light weight:
> > > 
> > > $ ls -l /bin/sh
> > > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  111028 Nov 30 00:10 /bin/sh

~ $ ls -l /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  111788 Oct  5 13:55 /bin/sh*


> > > $ ls -l /bin/ksh
> > > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  681584 Oct  6 12:33 /bin/ksh
> > > 
> > > How about giving us all a laugh and posting the results for bash ;)
> > 
> > ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  643984 Sep 12 15:51 /usr/local/bin/bash*
> > 
> 
> pdksh has put on weight. Used to be ~300k in the 4.* days and bash
> about 500k IIRC. On my machine bash is bigger than yours (newer version?):

~ $ bash --version
bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.25(0)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd6.2)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
> $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  676752 Nov  9 11:57 /usr/local/bin/bash
> 
> Don't know why bash is writable by root but sh & ksh aren't. 
> 
> Seems like I've ended up with bash installed whether I like it or not:
> 
> $ pkg_info -R bash-3.2.25
> Information for bash-3.2.25:
> 
> Required by:
> gnome-doc-utils-0.12.0
> libgnome-2.20.1.1_1
> rarian-0.6.0_1




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