Subject: Re: running shell scripts
From: Earnie Boyd <[email-masked]>
To: Bob McGowan <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:48:40 -0800 (PST)

--- Bob McGowan <[email-masked]> 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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