Re: a bash user can NOT be used to ksh

On 2006-08-07, xs wrote:

Andreas Wenzel wrote:
xs wrote:
[...]
Could you please kindly give me some advice? Thank you

type /bin/bash and press enter.

[please don't top post]

Thank you for your reply. I didn't express clearly in my previous post.
Because this is the team project, I need to use other people's scripts.
Everybody is using ksh. If I use bash, those scripts will not work in
my hand.

Using bash at the command line doesn't mean you have to run all
scripts with it.

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