Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:40:08 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<stephen@example.com> wrote:

> ln -s /bin/bash ~/sh
> ~/sh
> 
> I'll bet you bash reads .profile, and you can verify it with strace,
> too.

Which pretty much confirms what I said.

When invoked as 'sh', bash behaves like a Bourne shell (and therefore reads
~/.profile).

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G. Stewart - gstewart@example.com

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        Anything that can go wr
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