On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, David Weinehall wrote:
>...
> Getting rid of the bash:isms everywhere is far from impossible; look at
> Debian, they are mostly there.
Nothing in the Debian policy says that packages mustn't use bash in
scripts (see section 11.4. of the Debian policy [1]) and since bash is an
essential package in Debian it's garuanteed to be available on every
Debian installation.
It isn't allowed to use bash in a script that calls
#!/bin/sh
but if a script uses
#!/bin/bash
instead it can use all of bash's features.
> /David
cu
Adrian
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/index.html
--You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because its a police state. Alan Cox
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