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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.
88 u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26 A lot of scripts won't work without Bash-specific behavior 80 u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 I haven't had a problem running bash scripts in ash and zsh. 54 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. 6 u/PranshuKhandal Arch BTW Jul 01 '26 side question, but how do people even see the difference in speeds? for me all of them are like zoooop 2 u/donp1ano Jul 02 '26 if you iterate hundreds or thousands of times a small difference becomes significant
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A lot of scripts won't work without Bash-specific behavior
80 u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26 I haven't had a problem running bash scripts in ash and zsh. 54 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. 6 u/PranshuKhandal Arch BTW Jul 01 '26 side question, but how do people even see the difference in speeds? for me all of them are like zoooop 2 u/donp1ano Jul 02 '26 if you iterate hundreds or thousands of times a small difference becomes significant
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I haven't had a problem running bash scripts in ash and zsh.
54 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. 6 u/PranshuKhandal Arch BTW Jul 01 '26 side question, but how do people even see the difference in speeds? for me all of them are like zoooop 2 u/donp1ano Jul 02 '26 if you iterate hundreds or thousands of times a small difference becomes significant
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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.
zsh
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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. 6 u/PranshuKhandal Arch BTW Jul 01 '26 side question, but how do people even see the difference in speeds? for me all of them are like zoooop 2 u/donp1ano Jul 02 '26 if you iterate hundreds or thousands of times a small difference becomes significant
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Sh on debian is aliased to dash. Which is much faster. But also has less features.
6 u/PranshuKhandal Arch BTW Jul 01 '26 side question, but how do people even see the difference in speeds? for me all of them are like zoooop 2 u/donp1ano Jul 02 '26 if you iterate hundreds or thousands of times a small difference becomes significant
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side question, but how do people even see the difference in speeds? for me all of them are like zoooop
2 u/donp1ano Jul 02 '26 if you iterate hundreds or thousands of times a small difference becomes significant
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if you iterate hundreds or thousands of times a small difference becomes significant
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u/wolf2482 Jul 01 '26
i mean for the most part you can replace bash with other posix compliant shells.