dumb bash_profile question

[Darrin Chandler]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:36:05AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> there you go - I thought /bin/sh and /bin/bash were the same. It's clear
> that they are not because copying .bash_profile to .profile was just the
> ticket.
> 
> I'm not sure if that is better than changing ingres user's shell
> to /bin/bash but at least I know why it wasn't working.

If what you really want is bash, then you should change the shell to
bash. bash pretending to be sh will act differently sometimes to
maintain compatibility with sh, whereas bash being bash will always act
like bash.

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