[colug-432] Portable Shell

[R P Herrold]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> I have used Bourne shell as the standard for portability,
> and had though that it had ossified a long time ago,
> but was informed that Bourne is under active development,

[herrold at centos-7 .ssh]$ ssh -l root 10.16.4.14
[root at vm010004014 ~]# rpm -q bash
bash-3.2-32.el5
[root at vm010004014 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS release 5.8 (Final)
[stale, I know, but it is just a spin up of a old test image; 
updates contain:
---> Package bash.i386 0:3.2-33.el5_11.4 set to be updated ]


[herrold at centos-7 ~]$ ssh -l herrold centos-6
Last login: Mon Oct 19 14:08:39 2015 from 
centos-7.first.owlriver.net
[herrold at centos-6 ~]$ rpm -q bash
bash-4.1.2-33.el6_7.1.x86_64
[herrold at centos-6 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.7 (Final)


[herrold at centos-7 ~]$  rpm -q bash
bash-4.2.46-12.el7.x86_64
[herrold at centos-7 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) 
[herrold at centos-7 ~]$ 

-- Russ herrold