Re: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS

[James K. Lowden]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:15:28 +1100
John Gardner <gardnerjohng@gmail.com> wrote:

> There's already a deprecation warning in-place warning users against
> relying on the existence of /bin/bash or the assumption that /bin/sh
> == /bin/bash.

Every so often I get a +10 bump on SO for my answer about writing a
portable shell script.  The answer starts by changing the first line to 

        #! /bin/sh

because Posix says that shell has to be there.  If Posix had a slogan,
surely it would be "Why mess around with anything else?".  ;-)

--jkl