[Discuss] Scripting languages (was Re: rsync v. cp in data migration)

Derek Martin invalid at pizzashack.org
Mon May 27 12:36:33 EDT 2013


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:34:17AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:11:03AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> And believe it or not, I have actually come across installed Unix
> systems where the system shell was csh, and there was no
> bourne-compatible shell installed on the machine.  

Actually I must be wrong about this.  While I'm quite certain that
root's shell was csh, the system's rc scripts would have been in a
bourne-compatible shell.  It may be that the system had ash
installed... I believe the machine in question was a *BSD box.

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