Re: vPgSql

On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 10:52:59 +1000
Tim Cross <theophilusx(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I think pretty much all *nix systems put core shells like sh, bash, zsh
> etc in /bin (as it is guaranteed to be available immediately at boot, while /usr is
> not - it could be a separate partition which isn't available until later
> in the boot process).

They do but at least solaris circa v.9 and now redhat have replaced /bin with a symlink to /usr/bin. Whether you get /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh out of `which` depends purely on their order in your $PATH.

> A way to avoid platform differences is to use /usr/bin/env e.g.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash

Except now you can't pass arguments to your bash.

You can't win. Although in the case of shell scripts you can get rid of all bash'isms and call '/bin/sh'
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Dmitri Maziuk <dmaziuk(at)bmrb(dot)wisc(dot)edu>