exotic shell sought

exotic shell sought

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

is there a switch or a special symlink name
which enables zsh to simulate a probably
extremely old shell.

I'd need this to install Sun's java runtime environment 
jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin

This is a self extracting shell script.
(the first line is  #!/bin/sh)

Unfortunately it fails, with a 
dirname too many arguments
error.
This old shell probably has a different
string quoting mechanism.

Many thanks for a hint,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: exotic shell sought

[Peter Stephenson]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> This is a self extracting shell script.
> (the first line is  #!/bin/sh)
> 
> Unfortunately it fails, with a 
> dirname too many arguments
> error.
> This old shell probably has a different
> string quoting mechanism.

I'm afraid you're probably going to have to trace down the error more
precisely before we can give any hints.

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Re: exotic shell sought

[Frank Terbeck]

Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> is there a switch or a special symlink name
> which enables zsh to simulate a probably
> extremely old shell.
> 
> I'd need this to install Sun's java runtime environment 
> jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin
[...]

Hi Helmut,

The zsh emulates the bourne shell if it's called as 'sh'.
The jre archive extracts for me with /bin/sh linked to zsh.

Regards, Frank