Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Thu, Oct 22 2015, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> No.  Unfortunately, there's a long history of systems (hel-lo, GNU!)
> with /bin/sh linked to a non-conforming program.  Weeding out all the
> bashisms in Debian package management scripts took quite a bit of pain
> and effort.

Also, a fact that is somewhat relevant to the present discussion is that
emacs doesn't use /bin/sh by default:

$ echo $SHELL
/usr/local/bin/bash
$ emacs --batch -Q --eval '(message "%s" shell-file-name)'
/usr/local/bin/bash
$ ls -l /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  172733  1 Jul 15:42 /bin/sh*
$