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Old 23rd November 2009
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Originally Posted by s0xxx
The only thing that needs to be changed are probably the arrays and small other things, in order to convert it to sh. I'm not so eager to change it as NetBSD, by default, comes with ksh. In bash case, you'd have to install it first.
Agreed. It was partly just that bash is the most convenient for me and I figured if someone wants sh then this is at least half-way there. The other part was that re-writing the script forced me to look at it closely enough to learn about the interesting underlying facts and principles, like

(a) there are snapshots out there!

(b) how to upgrade by hand without booting an install iso.

Thanks for this and the additional info.
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