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Re: bash now default shell in 10.2; and reading files
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Re: bash now default shell in 10.2; and reading files


  • Subject: Re: bash now default shell in 10.2; and reading files
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:36:41 -0700

On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 09:32 AM, Charles Arthur wrote:

From the technote about changes in 10.2 at
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html

* The bash command shell is now installed with Mac OS X, and has replace
zsh as the default /bin/sh (r. 2809843).

Any differences this will make to the actions/behaviour/results of "do
shell script" or redirections from it?

Redirections, no; behavior, yes in some cases. A few people at Apple had shell scripts break during the initial zsh/bash switch; if I remember right the problems had to do with certain forms of variable expansion. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact details, but essentially, zsh didn't emulate sh quite right in a few places, while bash is more faithful.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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