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Bourne shell?
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Mar 19, 2008, 01:58 PM
 
This is probably a simple question, but is it possible to use a Bourne shell with my Terminal, and if so how do I do it?

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Mar 19, 2008, 02:33 PM
 
Never mind if found it. bash!
     
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Mar 19, 2008, 05:31 PM
 
That's not the bourne shell (just sh for short), that's the oh cleverly named bourne again shell. The old bourne shell is not installed by default, but bash can emulate it if you launch it as sh. The emulation is not perfect - specifically, even if launched as sh, bash will enable many features it shouldn't - but if you have to... Apple has installed a link to do that in /bin/sh.
     
   
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