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[Dhawal Doshy]

Matt Kettler wrote:
> Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> 
>> Umm.. sh is bash, AFAIK no one uses the bourne shell (sh) in linux
>> anymore, everyone IS using bourne again shell (bash)
>> [dhawal at sauron ~]$ ll /bin/sh /bin/bash
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 616184 Feb 22  2005 /bin/bash
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 Jun  6  2005 /bin/sh -> bash 
> 
> Yes, but when bash is invoked as sh it changes its behavior to mimic the
> historic sh.
> 
> So while everyone uses a symlink from sh to bash, that "sh" command behaves very
> differently than calling bash.
> 
> See
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_63.html
> 
> "If Bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of
> historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX
> standard as well."

True, i forgot this feature.. that too after spending hours some years 
back linking bash as rbash (restricted bash)

- dhawal