After takin' a swig o' grog, Attila belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Homer wrote:
>
>>>>> The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) will become the standard
>>>>> shell that should, among other things, help with faster
>>>>> bootups.
>>>>
>>> Yeah. It is all too easy to fall into bashisms for system scripts!
>>
>> Here's a non-exhaustive list of other gotchas:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
>>
> Am I missing something? Wouldn't putting this #!/bin/bash as the first line
> in a script and setting the x bit with chmod guarantee that the script runs
> as bash and not dash? (not using sh) Then we could use all the bashisms we
> know and love. ;) couldn't we?
Except in the existing startup scripts.
It's a good excuse for me to clean up some scripts, anyway.
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