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Debian and its many derivatives (including Ubunutu) use Dash, and the BSDs tend to use some form of Ash. I don't have the statistics but, if it's true that a m
by bronson 12y ago
Debian and its many derivatives (including Ubunutu) use Dash, and the BSDs tend to use some form of Ash. I don't have the statistics but, if it's true that a majority of distros still use Bash for noninteractive use, it's a tiny majority.
- astine 12y agoWell, a lot of them then... I know that Arch and Gentoo at least use Bash and I'd be surprised if they were the only ones.
- profsnuggles 12y agoArch is using systemd and openrc comitted to using POSIX sh in their init scripts some time ago. So you can use dash or whatever posix compatible shell you want with it.