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Re: running shell scripts
- To: Bob McGowan <Robert dot McGowan at veritas dot com>, jskakkebaek at adomo dot com
- Subject: Re: running shell scripts
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:48:40 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Bob McGowan <Robert.McGowan@veritas.com> wrote:
> Jens,
>
> Check the scripts' first line, the #! one. Be sure that it reference
> bash and that the path used is also correct.
> As in: #!/bin/bash
>
> Be sure you have a /bin/bash.exe for the above to work.
Why bash instead of sh? Sh is much more lightweight and faster to invoke!!
That is the reason ash was used for sh.
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