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- From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: ksh
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 01:55:08 GMT
- Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
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- References: <1992Dec10.011541.27531@u.washington.edu> <FISCHER.92Dec12191250@solsort.iesd.auc.dk> <Bz9voD.AF@research.canon.oz.au>
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- In article <Bz9voD.AF@research.canon.oz.au> andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
- >fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer) writes:
- >>
- >>Get BASH (Bourne Again SHell), the GNU version of ksh with lots of csh
- >>niceties and other good stuff. I've used it as login shell on Sun's
- >>and NeXT for years, and it's truly the best shell available.
- >
- >BASH is quite usable but is also very large. A quick comparison on my
- >machine shows it using four times as much memory NeXT's /bin/sh.
- >You've got to ask yourself if its worth it...
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- Have you possibly neglected to strip bash?
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- 259[~]% ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/sh
- -rwxr-xr-x 2 root 122880 Jul 21 06:16 /bin/sh*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 221184 Oct 5 11:28 /usr/local/bin/bash*
- 260[~]% bash -version
- bash -version
- GNU bash, version 1.12.1
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