> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Alan Burkes <firstakir@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > And, Humdinger, although Haiku has bash, it's currently set to > > using > > sh by default. As to why, I have no idea. > > Surely you must be mistaken: > > Welcome to the Haiku shell. > > ~> help > GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i586-pc-beos) > These shell commands are defined internally. Type `help' to see this > list. > Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'. > Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general. > Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this > list. > > ... > > Looks a lot like bash to me! It *is*. But BeOS made it only available as /bin/sh, not /bin/bash. Haiku symlinks bash to sh, but it should probably do the opposite. François.