Re: [Gnumed-devel] <bug> shell scripts fail when /bin/sh <> /bin/bash

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:04:24PM +0200, Jerzy Luszawski wrote:

> I tried to install gnumed on the fresh installation of Kubuntu 8.04 and was 
> caught by various syntax errors when executing scripts. It turned out that in 
> Kubuntu /bin/sh is linked to /bin/dash instead of /bin/bash as in many other 
> common distros. 
> I know that it doesn't mean the scripts are bad, but in my case they just 
> failed, and it took a while to guess why. 
> It is easy to avoid  by putting explicit reference to bash in the scripts 
> (#!/bin/bash). This could save some great deal of frustration for potential 
> users.
> Please consiter it.

Fixed in our shell scripts. I'd be happy to apply specific
patches you might come up with to remove bashisms from our
scripts.

Thanks for the report,
Karsten
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