[svlug] Location of bash on different Linuxes

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:03:14 -0700 
Ray Olszewski <ray at comarre.com> wrote:

> At 11:54 AM 8/17/00 -0700, 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?
>> 
>> <<I need to write some mildly complex distribution agnostic shell
>> scripts and I'd rather not have to assume a straight (unfeatured)
>> Bourne shell ala /bin/sh>>

> Any number of small Linux distributions (Linux Router Project
> comes immediately to mind) use ash rather than bash. So whether
> the answer is YES or NO depends on your cutoff value for defining
> something as a "Linux distribution".

Good point.  The definition of "distribution" in this context is,
"something that could be reasonably expected to run a web server or
other device that needs SSL, video streaming support, image
analysis/processing, or similar".  As this is related to a
commercial project I can set reasonable boundaries -- but I'd prefer
to be as agnostic as possible without resorting to a binary
executable.

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