scripting environments (was: /bin/date and coreutils)

[Elias Pipping]

On May 11, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2007-05-11 18:12:35 +0200, Elias Pipping wrote:
>> On May 11, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> They are always there under Mac OS X. But some Unix platforms do not
>>> necessarily have a /bin/bash (e.g. Solaris). And I don't think this
>>> is the case of tcsh either (/bin/csh is probably much more common,
>>> but anyway http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/).
>>> /bin/sh is always there, but this is not always a POSIX sh (e.g. it
>>> isn't under Solaris).
>>
>> any reason not to use '/usr/bin/env bash'?
>
> Because a standard Solaris installation doesn't have bash installed
> anywhere.

a system that doesn't have bash anywhere should be considered broken ;)

Is there really a macports user on solaris?