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From: trent@cs.dal.ca (Trent MacDougall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Forcing /bin/sh in a script under V/386 3.2 Korn shell
Message-ID: <1989Jul12.191342.1048@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 12 Jul 89 19:13:42 GMT
References: <14445@bfmny0.UUCP>
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Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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From article <14445@bfmny0.UUCP>, by tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff):
> I use Korn shell and am happy with it, but I want certain shell
> scripts to be intepreted by the Bourne shell instead.  There is
> already a mechanism by which CSH(1) figures out to spawn /bin/sh
> on a script rather than interpreting itself, namely putting a
> colon ':' as the first line.
> 
> What I want to know is, is there any way to do this under K-shell?
> 

I was just going to send Todd Day this note. His postings about setting
up C News helped me and I wanted to return the favor.  I put the following
at the beginning of the file /usr/local/lib/news/bin/config.

	if [ "$RANDOM" != "$RANDOM" ]
	then
		/bin/sh -c "$0 $*"; exit $?
	fi

This will force all shell scripts to be run under sh instead of ksh.
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