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From: dave+news...@gibson-hrd.abelgratis.co.uk.invalid (Dave Gibson)
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Subject: Re: what does "#!/sbin/sh -" mean?
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:37:59 +0100
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Loki Harfagr <l...@thedarkdesign.free.fr.invalid> wrote:
> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:19:45 +0100, Dave Gibson did cat�:
> 
>> Evergreen <sidneyla...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> When you call/invoke bash with a single dash for an argument it makes
>>> it a login shell.
> ...
>> 
>>   $ bash -
>>   $ shopt login_shell
>>   login_shell     off
>>   $ exit
>>   exit
> 
> How dare you! You, you, shopt puppet!

:)