Yes, sorry: I edited the posting heavily and I missed that some pronouns now had the wrong antecedent. On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:47 AM Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/21/21 11:42 AM, John Cowan wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:22 AM Larry McVoy > > wrote: > > > > I get the historical interest, but in today's world, is there any > > advantage to ksh over bash? I get that lots of scripts are run > > with /bin/sh and it is nice when that is fast, but aren't the cpus > > fast enough these days that it sort of doesn't matter? > > > > > > Ubuntu chose it as the default shell for sysvinit startup scripts in 2006 > > (from which it spread to BSD) precisely because it was much faster than > > bash. It's also smaller: bash is a memory hog. > > You're talking about dash, I think. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >