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A tale of two shells: bash or dash

A tale of two shells: bash or dash

Posted Aug 7, 2009 20:46 UTC (Fri) by mennucc1 (subscriber, #14730)
Parent article: A tale of two shells: bash or dash

I was badly bitten in 2006 by bug 379277; since then I have not liked a lot the idea of Debian switching the defaul shell for scripts to dash.


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A tale of two shells: bash or dash

Posted Aug 8, 2009 11:34 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> I was badly bitten in 2006 by bug 379277;

"echo" sucks. Use "printf"

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