Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Use bash for several contrib scripts

[Mike Bianchi]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:12:38PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> > How is someone attempting to understand a  #!/bin/sh  script to know what 
> > the
> > writer intended if there is no documented way to interpret the syntax?
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # This script is written for the bash shell.  See bash(1).
> 
> Or is that just too obvious?

Wouldn't  #!/bin/bash  be more obvious and less error-prone?


For years my  /bin/sh  linked to  /bin/ksh  .  It took a while when debugging
 ~#/bin/sh  shells (often written for /bin/bash) to figure out _that_ was
what was burning me.

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