[ale] changing dash to bash in ubuntu

Michael Potter michael at potter.name
Sat Feb 19 09:02:35 EST 2011


I had never heard of dash until this thread.
I did a little googling and it appears that dash does not support 'set
-o pipefail'.
That alone is a deal killer for me.

I have read that who are concerned about the overhead of bash should
consider pdksh.  pdksh support pipefail.

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Michael Potter
Replatform Technologies, LLC
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michael at potter.name


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