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Re: Changed handling of "!" in /bin/sh?


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According to Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] on 1/17/2007 4:14 PM:
>> 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.

And that is different from an ash bug, how?  :)

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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