Forcing /bin/sh in a script under V/386 3.2 Korn shell

[Trent MacDougall]

>From article <14445 at bfmny0.UUCP>, by tneff at bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff):
> I use Korn shell and am happy with it, but I want certain shell
> scripts to be intepreted by the Bourne shell instead.  There is
> already a mechanism by which CSH(1) figures out to spawn /bin/sh
> on a script rather than interpreting itself, namely putting a
> colon ':' as the first line.
> 
> What I want to know is, is there any way to do this under K-shell?
> 

I was just going to send Todd Day this note. His postings about setting
up C News helped me and I wanted to return the favor.  I put the following
at the beginning of the file /usr/local/lib/news/bin/config.

	if [ "$RANDOM" != "$RANDOM" ]
	then
		/bin/sh -c "$0 $*"; exit $?
	fi

This will force all shell scripts to be run under sh instead of ksh.
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