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10.4: Update to a newer bash shell
Authored by: wgscott on Sep 06, '06 09:46:57PM
The reason they are copies and not hard links has to do with the HFS+ file system. Hard links exhibit some pathological behaviors. This is explained in a cheerfully snarkish dialog

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10.4: Update to a newer bash shell
Authored by: JadeNB on Sep 07, '06 09:08:22AM

Thanks so much for posting this link. I was wondering about this strange behaviour, but thought I (being relatively new to Unix) must just be doing something wrong.



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