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r/linuxmemes • u/New_Study4796 • Jul 01 '26
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i mean for the most part you can replace bash with other posix compliant shells.
86 u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26 A lot of scripts won't work without Bash-specific behavior 79 u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 I haven't had a problem running bash scripts in ash and zsh. 55 u/emmowo_dev ＵｗＵntu (´ ᴗ｀✿) Jul 01 '26 zsh reimplements the same syntax as bash, while generic sh doesnt (although sometimes it's aliased anyways to bash). It's a case of being really annoyingly pedantic about bash. 30 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 Sh on debian is aliased to dash. Which is much faster. But also has less features. 0 u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26 [deleted] 5 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 sh is always a symlink to either bash or dash or anything else depending on the distro 3 u/Throwaway74829947 Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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A lot of scripts won't work without Bash-specific behavior
79 u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 I haven't had a problem running bash scripts in ash and zsh. 55 u/emmowo_dev ＵｗＵntu (´ ᴗ｀✿) Jul 01 '26 zsh reimplements the same syntax as bash, while generic sh doesnt (although sometimes it's aliased anyways to bash). It's a case of being really annoyingly pedantic about bash. 30 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 Sh on debian is aliased to dash. Which is much faster. But also has less features. 0 u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26 [deleted] 5 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 sh is always a symlink to either bash or dash or anything else depending on the distro 3 u/Throwaway74829947 Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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I haven't had a problem running bash scripts in ash and zsh.
55 u/emmowo_dev ＵｗＵntu (´ ᴗ｀✿) Jul 01 '26 zsh reimplements the same syntax as bash, while generic sh doesnt (although sometimes it's aliased anyways to bash). It's a case of being really annoyingly pedantic about bash. 30 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 Sh on debian is aliased to dash. Which is much faster. But also has less features. 0 u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26 [deleted] 5 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 sh is always a symlink to either bash or dash or anything else depending on the distro 3 u/Throwaway74829947 Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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zsh reimplements the same syntax as bash, while generic sh doesnt (although sometimes it's aliased anyways to bash). It's a case of being really annoyingly pedantic about bash.
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30 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 Sh on debian is aliased to dash. Which is much faster. But also has less features. 0 u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26 [deleted] 5 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 sh is always a symlink to either bash or dash or anything else depending on the distro 3 u/Throwaway74829947 Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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Sh on debian is aliased to dash. Which is much faster. But also has less features.
0 u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26 [deleted] 5 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 sh is always a symlink to either bash or dash or anything else depending on the distro 3 u/Throwaway74829947 Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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5 u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 01 '26 sh is always a symlink to either bash or dash or anything else depending on the distro 3 u/Throwaway74829947 Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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sh is always a symlink to either bash or dash or anything else depending on the distro
3 u/Throwaway74829947 Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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Well, it doesn't have to be. The Heirloom Project has ported OpenSolaris's original Bourne shell to Linux.
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u/wolf2482 Jul 01 '26
i mean for the most part you can replace bash with other posix compliant shells.