will 11.04 replace bash

Mark mhullrich at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 20:17:46 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Christian Schult <cschult at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> Mark wrote:
>
>> Bash was developed for Linux AFAICT, but it is a whole replacement for
>> the Bourne shell that will run any Bourne shell script (which ksh did,
>> more or less, but most of the others did not).
>
> JFTR, bash is far older then linux. Bash is part of the GNU project.
>
> Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29
>
Serves me right for not looking.

Thank you.

Mark




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