* exotic shell sought
@ 2006-02-09 10:04 Helmut Jarausch
2006-02-09 10:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-02-09 10:25 ` Frank Terbeck
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From: Helmut Jarausch @ 2006-02-09 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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
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* Re: exotic shell sought
2006-02-09 10:04 exotic shell sought Helmut Jarausch
@ 2006-02-09 10:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-02-09 10:25 ` Frank Terbeck
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Peter Stephenson @ 2006-02-09 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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
2006-02-09 10:04 exotic shell sought Helmut Jarausch
2006-02-09 10:22 ` Peter Stephenson
@ 2006-02-09 10:25 ` Frank Terbeck
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Frank Terbeck @ 2006-02-09 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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
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