bash shell script: recently running, now failing

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Fergus Daly!

> I have a "hash bang" bash shell script i.e. first line
> #! /bin/sh
> or equivalently
> #! /bin/bash

By default, sh is bash in base Cygwin installation.

> Q3 - at 1/8 the size of bash and sh, I am not at all sure of the role and reach of dash.
> Should the edit (dash replacing bash/sh) be incorporated elsewhere or would this be a
> bad idea (and retained only locally in what is indeed an eccentric and one-off context)?

I'm replacing /bin/sh with dash as I've found that even in POSIX mode, bash
allows for a lot of bash'izms in scripts, which would not otherwise run under
(d?a)?sh.

See the post-install script attached.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, April 6, 2023 15:18:19

Sorry for my terrible english...
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