Re^2: Using perl to speed up a series of bash commands by transforming them into a single command that will run everything in parallel.

On many systems I see now a days, /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash ... there are a lot of people in the world who don't know there use to be a simple shell called 'sh' that didn't have all of bash's bells and whistles.

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Re^3: Using perl to speed up a series of bash commands by transforming them into a single command that will run everything in parallel. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 09, 2006 at 23:10 UTC
Doesn't `bash` behave differently when called as `sh`? I seem to recall that from a long time ago. On my system `bash` and `sh` are different.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Using perl to speed up a series of bash commands by transforming them into a single command that will run everything in parallel. by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Jun 10, 2006 at 15:55 UTC
Are you perhaps seeing mostly Linux systems? All major Linux distros seem to link /bin/sh to /bin/bash, as you said, but I haven't seen that very often outside the Linux realm. e.g., HP-UX doesn't install bash at all by default and instead has ksh as its standard shell.	[reply]