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Obligatory pedantry: Bash is A shell. It's definitely not "The Shell".

• colordrops 4y ago
  It kinda almost is though.
  • JonathonW 4y ago
    With Ubuntu using dash as its /bin/sh and macOS defaulting to zsh for interactive shells (I think their /bin/sh is still bash, but haven’t checked), this is probably the least true now that it’s been for a couple decades.
    • bigDinosaur 4y ago
      Also, as noted in another comment: windows has its own shell(s) which are entirely unrelated to bash.
  • hyperhopper 4y ago
    People have said the same thing about sh. And neither bash nor sh are that great, so no reason to put down the idea that they shouldn't be the "default"
  • chasil 4y ago
    Bash is a chameleon. When called as /bin/sh or if the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, it will act as a POSIX shell. If not, it will behave very differently. The one major difference that I know is that aliases will be ignored in the execution of a script, so "alias p=printf" will fail (for example). This is not POSIX-compliant.
    • paskozdilar 4y ago
      Aliases seem to work on Bash 5.0.17: #!/bin/sh alias p=printf p ok
      • jwilk 4y ago
        Try with #!/bin/bash shebang.
        • paskozdilar 4y ago
          Ah, I misread the post. My bad.
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  • tuxie_ 4y ago
    Over the past 10 years it has been losing market share to zsh and to a lesser extent, fish. It's really isn't anymore.