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Date: | Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:05:32 +1100 (EST) |
From: | Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au> |
Subject: | Re: Changed handling of "!" in /bin/sh? |
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On 17 Jan, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:14:27PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > >Eric Blake wrote on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:18 PM: > >> According to Luke Kendall on 1/16/2007 6:53 PM: > >>> > >>> Or, copy /bin/ash.exe to replace /bin/sh.exe. > >> > >> Not recommended. The reason cygwin moved to bash as > >> /bin/sh was to avoid ash bugs. > > > >I thought that it was more to avoid all the complaints > >that sh did not behave like bash, which is what many > >people expected. > > You're right that was also a reason. Wow, I'm really showing my age, aren't I? :-) luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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