On Apr 12, 2006, at 10:56 AM, N.J. Thomas wrote: > perhaps /bin/sh > on all Linux boxes are just links to /bin/bash?) On 99% of machines that is exactly the case. Sometimes it's a link to ash, but normally bash. Bash is supposed to run in "bourne compliant" mode when called from the symlink but it still allows for some "bashisms" iirc. Mike H