help removing a file

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Sat Sep 8 05:42:22 AEST 1990


In article <13419 at hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM) writes:
> Not on any system I've worked on. It always defaults to $SHELL, your
> current shell.

No, you mean ksh defaults to ksh. On every system I've ever used, sh defaults
to sh and csh uses the # hack to decide if it should use sh or csh. In my
opinion, this is an error: ksh should execute scripts with /bin/sh by
default... there are enough differences in behaviour between the two shells
that this can break stuff. Just try replacing "sh" with "ksh" to see what
I mean.
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