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On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 4, 2008 11:58 UTC (Thu) by jonth (subscriber, #4008)
In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by muwlgr
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

Not true: On Debian Etch:

$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-12-20 00:07 /bin/sh -> bash

On Ubuntu Hardy:

$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-04-24 23:50 /bin/sh -> dash

(They replaced bash with dash for speed reasons, IIRC)

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On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 4, 2008 14:30 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Yes but these shells still implement /bin/sh functionality as set in POSIX.