running a simple command line tool
CJ Tres
ctres at grics.net
Thu Feb 23 16:52:21 UTC 2012
On 02/23/2012 10:12 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>
> And you can see that it's a symlink to dash (that's what the '->' syntax
> means - the fact it just says 'dash' means it's in the same directory,
> so /bin/dash).
>
> Now, you *could* bodge it by repointing that symlink, but that's not a
> great idea in case things call that expecting dashisms that aren't in
> bash. What *should* happen is that when a script needs bash it is passed
> to bash, not sh. This is something that should really be fixed in those
> test scripts in that installer.
>
Thanks for the info. I'll leave it to the "naughty dev" to fix then.
Glad it's not just me being ignorant.
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