[svlug] Location of bash on different Linuxes

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:34:33 -0700 (PDT) 
Rafael  <raffi at linwin.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> Can bash be reliably found in /bin/bash in all Linux
>> distributions?  Are there any Linux distributions where bash
>> cannot be found in /bin/bash?

> As far as I know /bin/sh is on all Unix systems. Linux has a link
> from /bin/bash to /bin/sh. If you write a script then #!/bin/sh
> should work in most (Unix) cases if not all of them.

True.  However I'm specifically interested in Linux.  The script I'm
writing will never execute on a non-Linux system (it deals with
Linux kernel modules) and I'd like to take advantage of a few
bash-specific extentions.  Thus my interest in bash being in
/bin/bash on all Linux distributions.

> Shell has to be in root partition to have a usable system under
> emergency situation. 

Right, but that can be anything from sh to ash or tcsh (eek!).

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