[haiku] Re: Bash tutorials and online resources

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:52:30 +0100 CET

> 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.

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