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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String extraction from user input - sh Post 62811 by zazzybob on Sunday 20th of February 2005 03:27:22 AM

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Originally Posted by vino

But I have set the sh to /bin/sh. Does it still make a difference ???

No, it shouldn't matter - most Linux systems have /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash - to check, do

ls -li /bin/sh /bin/bash

see if a) the inode numbers are the same or b) there's a soft link.

Cheers
ZB

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