running shell scripts

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Tue Feb 15 16:01:00 GMT 2000


--- Bob McGowan <Robert.McGowan@veritas.com> 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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