DVM - D Version Manager

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 26 08:07:23 PST 2011


On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:50:20 -0500, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:58 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> FWIW, /bin/sh is usually a symlink to bash, and it makes bash behave  
>> like
>> the original Bourne Shell.
>
> For some definition of "usually".  On Debian and Ubuntu /bin/sh is a
> symbolic link to dash not bash.

On my ubuntu system too -- to my surprise ;)

On my fedora system I think it was symlinked to bash.

Either way, the actual "bourne shell" is rarely installed on Linux, it's  
usually another shell that mimics the features.

-Steve


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