Upgrade from Dapper to Edgy
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Feb 18 17:52:12 UTC 2007
Rick Greep wrote:
> Well it looks like I stumbled on a hornets
> nest. "https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/61463".
>
> After spending a few of hours trying to get dash to work, I've found a couple
> of annoyances it just doesn't seem to handle. You cannot use escapes in the
> echo command ( -e "\t\n"), and variables like $HOSTNAME are not valued under
> dash.
>
> I know I can use `uname -n` instead of $HOSTNAME and maybe my echo commands
> don't have to be that pretty, but it is a bit annoying to have to change my
> scripts to accommodate this upgrade.
All you have to change is the #!, to:
#!/bin/bash
Matthew Flaschen
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