KDE env broken in startkde because of dash?

Binary package hint: ksmserver

I have a number of scripts in ~/.kde/env folder to setup various KDE environment variables including KDEWM.

Startkde has a shebang of /bin/sh and /bin/sh is linked by default to dash

The following code in startkde does not work correctly under dash...

exepath=`kde-config --path exe | tr : '\n'`

for prefix in `echo "$exepath" | sed -n -e 's,/bin[^/]*/,/env/,p'`; do
  for file in "$prefix"*.sh; do
    test -r "$file" && . "$file"
  done
done

tested using the following shell script under bash and dash...

exepath=`kde-config --path exe | tr : '\n'`

for prefix in `echo "$exepath" | sed -n -e 's,/bin[^/]*/,/env/,p'`; do
  for file in "$prefix"*.sh; do
        echo prefix = $prefix , file = $file
  done
done

which returns the following under bash (OK): -

prefix = /home/paul/.kde/env/ , file = /home/paul/.kde/env/compiz.sh
prefix = /home/paul/.kde/env/ , file = /home/paul/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh
prefix = /usr/env/ , file = /usr/env/*.sh

and this under dash (NOTOK): -

prefix = /home/paul/.kde/env/ , file = /home/paul/.kde/env/compiz.sh /home/paul/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh
prefix = /usr/env/ , file = /usr/env/*.sh

...hence the startkde line (test -r "$file" && . "$file") does not work and scripts do not get executed.

WORKAROUND: link /bin/sh to bash