Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ford
From: ford@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Forcing /bin/sh in a script under V/386 3.2 Korn shell
Summary: using $RANDOM gives RANDOM results
Keywords: ksh
Message-ID: <7291@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 02:32:00 GMT
References: <14445@bfmny0.UUCP> <1989Jul12.191342.1048@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: ford@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 19

In article <1989Jul12.191342.1048@cs.dal.ca> trent@cs.dal.ca (Trent MacDougall) writes:
>	if [ "$RANDOM" != "$RANDOM" ]
>	then
>		/bin/sh -c "$0 $*"; exit $?
>	fi
>
>This will force all shell scripts to be run under sh instead of ksh.

Umm ... not quite -- sometimes ksh would still be used, at RANDOM, you
might say (anytime $RANDOM happens to return the same value both times).

The example also trashes the argument list.
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					-=] Ford [=-

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- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!ucsd!crash!kenobi!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com