Re: [Hampshire] Bash -> Dash for sh. Is it safe?

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Author: Dave Walker
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Bash -> Dash for sh. Is it safe?

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On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 21:06 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
<SNIP>
> >
> > /bin/sh is certainly a symlink to /bin/bash in Feisty (7.04). I
> > believe the transition happened in Edgy.
> >
>
> Not here it isn't.
> alan@wopr:~$ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-11-14 21:48 /bin/sh -> dash


Fairly fresh install of Feisty:

$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-05-19 23:09 /bin/sh -> dash

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash