[Geeks] bash/dash/sh mess

[Alex Zijdenbos]

I agree that linking sh to bash is all in all the easiest solution...
sometimes the debian folks just get a little (over)zealous :)

I didn't have any problem with sge while still using dash though.

-- A

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:16 PM, J-S Muehlboeck <muehlboeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I symlink all ubuntu installs with sh -> bash .... otherwise sge won't work
> neither...
>
> Sebas
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> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Alex Zijdenbos <alex at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I suspect I am not the first one to run into this so I was wondering
> > how others have dealt with this. Ubuntu uses dash as the default sh by
> > symlinking /bin/sh to /bin/dash, which breaks an awful lot of BIC/MINC
> > scripts which call #!/bin/sh as the interpreter. Mostly, dash does not
> > accept the use of '==', which then gives rise to errors like
> >
> >   [: 37: ==: unexpected operator
> >
> > this is for instance from Claude's pipeline install script; I also got
> > it for nu_correct and a bunch of other things. The explanation lives
> > in
> >
> >   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
> >
> > where the suggestions are to either fix #!/bin/sh scripts ot be POSIX
> > compliant, or to change them to use #!/bin/bash, or to  'sudo
> > dpkg-reconfigure dash' to change the symlink (which appears to have
> > happened on the BIC systems).
> >
> > Any thoughts/suggestions? Do a global search-and-replace through the
> > MINC codebase replacing #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash? Or fix the non-POSIX
> > stuff in them?
> >
> > -- A
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