On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Brian Hurt wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> That's a good point.  Is it *always* in that exact directory?  It 
>> certainly is on Solaris, AIX and Linux.  Having the path right 
>> definitely makes it easier when dealing with inexperienced users.
>
> I shudder to think how many things would break if something very like 
> Bourne Shell wasn't at /bin/sh (at least as a link).  I don't know of 
> any standard that *requires* there be a /bin/sh, but any Unix which 
> didn't have one would be pretty rapidly auto-Darwinated out of the gene 
> pool.


Is it part of the official UNIX standard?  If it isn't, I think it should 
be.

Mike