[auton-users] arch*.sh scripts

Paul Komarek komarek at cmu.edu
Mon Jun 23 15:11:24 EDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:09, Paul Komarek wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:57, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> > Both of the new scripts fail on FreeBSD because /bin/bash is not installed
> > there. There are many other systems in which this is true as well.
> > 
> > As far as I know /bin/sh is pretty much guaranteed to exist on any
> > UNIX-like system.
> 
> I agree that there are many borken systems out there. ;-)
> 
> Would you mind checking for sh compatibility?  On GNU/Linux systems, sh
> is a symlink to bash, and bash doesn't completely disable all bash-isms
> in sh-mode.  Perhaps the easiest thing to do is symlink /bin/bash ->
> /bin/sh and try running them.
> 

Scratch that request.  I just remembered I used $(foo) instead of `foo`,
so I think sh is guaranteed to fail.  I'll try to get around to it.

-Paul



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