/bin/sh different than bash in fedora 11

[Cameron Simpson]

On 19Jun2009 10:42, Herbert Gasiorowski <gasi3 at web.de> wrote:
| The following to commands act different - though sh is just a link to bash:
| 
| > bash -c ". config"
| >   sh -c ". config"
| sh: line 0: .: config: file not found
| 
| this happens after switching from Fedora 10 to 11
| 
| Is this a bug or my fault?

It's a feature. When bash is invoked as sh it behaves in a more POSIX
compliant manner. You can expect gratuitous bash behaviours to not
always work.

In this case I suspect (untested) that "config" is not an executable file.

I strongly recommend that you try to always work with "sh" unless
there's some amazing reason to rely on bash; that way your code will be
portable to other UNIX systems. They all have "sh" but not all have
bash.
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