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Can somebody explain why they’re attributing ZSH to macOS? It’s clearly cross platform

• stephenr 3y ago
  The only guess I have is because it's the default interactive shell on macOS, while bash is probably more common on GNU systems. But that also doesn't make much sense given that this is about non interactive scripts. To be honest it's kind of crazy that for all the work that's gone into nodejs, it either doesn't have, or people don't know about, basic functionality that these examples are running a shell for.
  • gnarlouse 3y ago
    > default interactive shell Is that fairly new? I thought the default shell was bash.
    • stephenr 3y ago
      Since Catalina, released in 2019.
• chasil 3y ago
  It would be equally appropriate/wrong to say that mksh, the MirBSD Korn shell, is Android's system shell. The manual page for mksh also mentions Android in the introduction for those who do not understand the role.
• mejthemage 3y ago
  Thank you. As someone who avoids Apple at all costs but loves zsh, this really rubbed me the wrong way. Pretty sure MacOS used to use bash too.