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For even more historical context, macOS originally shipped with tcsh. We've already done the shell transition once, and basically nobody noticed.

• koenigdavidmj 7y ago
  That wouldn’t have broken as much, since everyone’s scripts would have a bash or sh shebang line on top. Changing what /bin/sh points to is a much riskier change.
  • okdana 7y ago
    Is that what they've done? The linked article doesn't say that.
    • brirec 7y ago
      $ /bin/sh --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      • koenigdavidmj 7y ago
        You can change this by pointing /var/select/sh .