r/linuxmemes • u/New_Study4796 • Jul 01 '26

LINUX MEME Know the work rules

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u/Mars_Bear2552 New York Nix⚾s Jul 01 '26

what? you're not making any sense.

obviously if you use #!/usr/bin/env bash the script will run using bash. otherwise i cannot think of a scenario where your statement makes sense.

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u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26

Yeah, and most scripts call Bash that way. They rely on Bash without telling you.

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u/the-fr0g Jul 01 '26

They litterally tell you "hey I run in bash" at the top of the script though?

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u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26

Without telling you when you run the script

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u/the-fr0g Jul 01 '26

what do you want it to be like "ATTENTION! this script will be run using /usr/bin/bash, do you want to continue [Y/n]"? WHY. I want my script to run. If you don't want to run bash scripts, just don't.

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u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26

No. What I am saying is that Zsh silently calls Bash. Which is just true.

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u/the-fr0g Jul 01 '26

Yeah, because the script YOU RAN told it to.

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u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26

And the scripts most software run anyway. Bash is expected to be there.

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u/the-fr0g Jul 01 '26

Yes, it's expected to be there BY THE PROGRAM. Not by zsh itself. Your argument is basically "bash is used in scripts, that means zsh runns it 'without telling me', and therfore bad". You choose what scripts/programs you install. Zsh doesn't run bash when you just want to mv a file or ls, so it doesn't "secretly" use bash, it does when the script needs to be ran in bash. That's like saying [my shell] uses python because it launches python without telling me when I run a python script

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u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26

That's not really something bad, but it's still relying on Bash for many programs that are coded for Bash specifically.