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A little help please
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A little help please
Post 302145593 by porter on Wednesday 14th of November 2007 05:35:42 PM
11-14-2007
porter
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If the documentation is telling you to use bash, then do so.
bash is a superset of sh.
sh is installed on *all* UNIX boxes, bash is only on some. So if you use sh and limit yourself to features sh supports then your script can run on more platforms.
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