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checkbashisms

Posted Dec 19, 2010 2:58 UTC (Sun) by MisterIO (guest, #36192)
In reply to: checkbashisms by epa
Parent article: Introducing the "Debian's Automated Code Analysis" (DACA) project

Because if you're invoking the shell as /bin/sh, it should be a POSIX shell. If you want bash, invoke it as /bin/bash. Anyway, I guess the main point of this was that dash has a smaller memory footprint than bash.


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