Ah. Sorry, our posts overlapped, so my last wasn;t a response to your post #9.
Installing bash is fine. It uses slightly more resources than the default shell, but is so much more functional, you are unlikely to regret it. I don't know if it will run as your default shell, but you should be able to tell from the xterm prompt,
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@vanadium - If you don't need to use some specific bash functions you may as well use #!/bin/sh in your scripts - it'll prevent this sort of thing from happening again if you decide to uninstall bash or it gets uninstalled during an upgrade.
Installing bash is fine. It uses slightly more resources than the default shell, but is so much more functional, you are unlikely to regret it. I don't know if it will run as your default shell, but you should be able to tell from the xterm prompt,
Class .. : Lame hacker & beardy boffin
Humour . : [#######---] Alignment: Apathetic anarchist
Patience : [####------] Weapon(s): My cat, my code.
Agro ... : |#---------] Relic(s) : N900, MacBookPro, NSLU2, N800, SheevaPlug, Eee-901, Core2-Quad, PS3
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not."
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Beware of extras-devel.