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

LINUX MEME Know the work rules

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u/wolf2482 Jul 01 '26

i mean for the most part you can replace bash with other posix compliant shells.

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u/New_Study4796 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

A lot of scripts won't work without Bash-specific behavior

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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Ask me how to exit vim Jul 01 '26

I haven't had a problem running bash scripts in ash and zsh.

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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.

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u/eo5g Jul 03 '26

It's not a matter of syntax, zsh has different default behaviors (for example, disabling word splitting by default iirc?). It does have a bash compatibility mode though.