A question about procmailrc

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

John Summerfied wrote:
> Tony Dietrich wrote:
> 
>>
>> Try switching to the sh shell
>>
>> Something is tickling my memory about input line limits with bash. 
>> Can't catch the memory, but if bash is the problem, try the shell
>> procmail recommend.
> 
> [summer at bilby ~]$ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root 4 Nov 26 12:31 /bin/sh -> bash
> [summer at bilby ~]$
> 
> I don't see how that will make a difference.
> 
> 
Believe it or not, Bash uses a different set of defaults
when invoked as sh. For example, from man bash:

When invoked as sh, bash enters posix mode after the startup files
are read.

Someplace or other, there is a list of differences, but I don't have
it handy...

Mikkel
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