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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Theodore Ruegsegger<gruntly-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: > > In particular, calling it sh enforces POSIX-compliance. Not quite. Historical versions of the Bourne shell are not POSIX-compliant, but bash aims to be (which is the reason Debian symlinks sh to bash). So if you call bash as sh, it tries to behave like sh without breaking POSIX-compliance. My suggestion would be that if you're on GNU/Linux, write for bash, don't be afraid of it. It's a far superior shell to traditional Bourne...
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