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Re: [News] A Look at Debian Squeeze

Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>> 
>>>    The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) will become the standard 
>>>    shell that should, among other things, help with faster 
>>>    bootups.
>>>
>>> Oh, I see, it executes scripts faster than bash and depends on
>>> fewer libraries.
>> 
>> It also lacks certain bash builtins, such as "let", and therefore
>> causes no end of confusion for Ubuntu and Debian users trying to
>> use scripts built for other systems (as I discovered recently).
> 
> Yeah.  It is all too easy to fall into bashisms for system scripts!

Here's a non-exhaustive list of other gotchas:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

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K.
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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.26.8-57.fc8
 02:23:03 up 74 days,  6:21,  5 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00

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