[XeTeX] Installing xetex in Linux

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

> > In most, if not all, Linux distributions sh is a softlink to bash.
> 
> softlinks can be found in men's trousers, not in UNIX.
 
OK I meant soft link, which is a common  alternative to
symbolic link. 

> The shell script starts with
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
> 
> It's strange to assume that something else might be meant by this  
> clear statement – and a computer would understand!

I am sorry but I do not agree. A typical google search makes clear
that Linux-people talk about sh but they actually mean bash or
dash or whatever.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-541334.html
http://bloggerdigest.blogspot.com/2006/08/bash-shell-scripts-and-bad-interpreter.html
http://www.linux.org/lessons/advanced/x1110.html

A.S.


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