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Eh? Bash predates Linux by a couple of years. I don’t remember any early Linux system — my frame of reference begins in 1994 — without bash as the default she
by marcus0x62 4y ago
Eh? Bash predates Linux by a couple of years. I don’t remember any early Linux system — my frame of reference begins in 1994 — without bash as the default shell.
- edgyquant 4y agoLinux was built out initially with a hard coded call to bash
- mschuster91 4y agoThe common Debian expectation to this day is to keep acting like you only had POSIX shell features aka /bin/sh [1]. You may use /bin/bash if you like though. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scripts https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-scr...
- marcus0x62 4y agoThat may be their expectation stylistically, but the first Debian release shipped[1] with bash as the default shell. I’m not aware of them ever having shipped the original Bourne shell. Your claim — that I was responding to - was that on early Linux systems you might only find the Bourne shell but not bash. That simply was not the case. 1 - http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/dists/buzz/main/source/base/ http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/dists/buzz/m...