[ale] why bash when ksh is default?

Michael David Ivey ivey at gstv.gsu.edu
Mon Mar 18 02:27:38 EST 1996


I may be mistaken, but I think that scripts get run by /bin/sh, unless it 
has a shbang.  This is unrelated to your login shell (/etc/passwd), and 
is tied into the way the kernel handles scripts.

Again, I may be wrong.



 
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