On Sunday 31 October 2010, Jim Gribbin elucidated thus:
> On my box, sh is linked to bash. I'm certain that will give me plenty
> to figure out for the moment :-)
>
> I assume in my case I can use '#!/bin/sh' & '#!/bin/bash'
> interchangeably?
Not if you want your scripts to be portable. If you rely on bash-isms
(and there are plenty) you need to use /bin/bash.
On Ubuntu (not sure when this started), /bin/sh links to /bin/dash
j
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