On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:33:17PM +0000, Howard, Chris wrote:
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> I'm wondering if the quickest fix for all of the bash bug stuff
> coming out now is to replace bash with a different shell.
>
> For instance, I see that I have /bin/ksh, why not just link
> that to /bin/bash and ride out the storm?
>
> Is that an alternative?
> Is there any large subsystem that relies on a bash specific feature?
>
For interactive use, most people switched from /bin/sh to /bin/tcsh back
in the mid-1990-ies. (Bash, ksh, zsh came out much later).
For scripting, all shells have bizarre syntax, if your script has "if" statements
or loops, you are better off doing it in perl (or in perl's alternative of the day).
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