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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:04:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        rashid@rk.ios.com
Subject:   Re: Bug in /bin/sh
Message-ID:  <199607031704.RAA00688@CoDe.CoDe.hu>
In-Reply-To: <199607021725.NAA12316@rk.ios.com> from "Rashid  Karimov" at Jul 2, 96 01:25:15 pm

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> 
> 		 it is well known that classic "sh" is buggy.

Yes, but /bin/sh in FreeBSD is not the classic "sh", it's
"ash" (from Kenneth Almquist)

> 		 It fails for example on some complex "configure"
> 		 scripts ... can't recall the name of the product,
> 		 I think it's something from GNU project.
> 
> 		 Use bash instead.

Or the real AT&T ksh93, or pdksh (they are a bit more standard than bash -
of course, on supported Unices, not in Linuxland).

-- 
	Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>

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