Re: [PLUG] Bash script problems - no "function" support?

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

brent timothy saner had this to say:
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> On 04/23/10 14:01, Mike Leone wrote:
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>> So ... what? I have a weird link somewhere? Is the link called "sh" 
>> fubarred up? How can I tell?
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> root@houseoftherisingson:~# ls -l `which sh`;ls -l `which bash`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 12  2008 /bin/sh -> bash
> - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 813912 May 12  2008 /bin/bash
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> compare to your results of:
> 
> # ls -l `which sh`;ls -l `which bash`

AH HA!

$ ls -l `which sh`;ls -l `which bash`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-01-20 04:10 /bin/sh -> dash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 702160 2008-05-12 14:33 /bin/bash

> if it points to a wrong place (it's possible mine's a fluke, because
> it's on a VPS and not a "real" install), you can simply fix it by rm'ing
> /bin/sh and ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

So my "/bin/sh" is NOT pointing to /bin/bash. Now that I think about it, 
I seem to remember hearing that Ubuntu's default shell was now dash ...

So then I re-make the link ...

# ls -l `which sh`;ls -l `which bash`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-04-23 15:14 /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 702160 2008-05-12 14:33 /bin/bash

and ...
$ sh test2.sh
hello world

And now I can go try JP's script again (once I figure out how to strip 
out the carriage returns that seem to be in there, from saving it form 
my email on a Windows system, and then scping it over to the Linux box ...)

Thanks so much!
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