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From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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| I honestly can't see how this could be a big deal one way or another,

It depends on how sophisticated your shell scripts are.  One could
reasonably argue that if it makes a difference you should use a more
capable language.

| and given the choice, I prefer to resist any change to the program so
| late in the game.

So what does es do? :-)