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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Changing the Bash Scripts to Bourne Scripts:URGENT Post 302348891 by Scott on Sunday 30th of August 2009 10:15:59 AM
Old 08-30-2009
Hi.

On my (Linux) system, they are the same:

Code:
> ll $(which sh)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb  9  2008 /bin/sh -> bash

/bin > ./sh
/bin > echo $0
sh
/bin > $0 --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Check this on your system.

If they're not the same, change the "shebang" on the first line:

i.e.
Code:
#!/bin/sh

and run the script (possibly with -n) to check the syntax and see where the errors are.

I found this link (from cfjohnson) about how to "simulate arrays" in shells which don't support them:

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups...4-05/0052.html
Last edited by Scott; 08-30-2009 at 11:30 AM..
 

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shells

shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The  following  default	shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh,
       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
       /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).

FILES

       /etc/shells	       lists shells on system

SEE ALSO

       vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)

SunOS 5.10							    4 Jun 2001								 shells(4)
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