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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:14:05PM -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> Tips and Tricks: avoiding common goofs in bash scripts
> 19 slides, reasonably stand-alone
+1 for this one.
> Note the bash v. dash thing is useful because as of Ubuntu 6.10 /bin/sh
> --> dash, *not* bash as most (but not all) other Linux distros
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh). The default shell for
> interactive use is still bash, but if you work on init scripts, for
> example, there are differences that will cause you problems.
> Unfortunately, bash != dash != ash != Bourne != Busybox.
I've actually taken to simply replacing dash with bash on my Ubuntu EC2
images b/c the Amazon code assumes bash (it was all written for
RedHat-inspired distros).
--
Toby DiPasquale
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