On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:25:31 +0000 Magnus Therning <Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
| History! bash seems to be the de-facto shell of Linux. Why is this? bash is part of the GNU project. | distribution uses it as its default shell. This means that a lot of | shell scripts in the wild is written to be executed by it (#! | /bin/bash), quite a few pretend to not be (#! /bin/sh) but use bashisms. It would be interesting to know whether the bash emulation of zsh can serve those. In any case, it's not our job to support bad habits. | In short, I think it's prudent to keep requiring bash to be installed | and that /bin/sh points to /bin/bash. I might agree with you there. | I personally use zsh, so I wouldn't mind if it became the default shell | in Arch :-) However I think Arch would loose some Linux karma by | changing the default shell. Why? Linux is about diversity, not about adhering to tradition... And if there's a distribution pushing evolution, then it is Arch. | I also wouldn't dare saying that zsh is a proper superset of bash. Prove the converse :) Kind regards, Leslie -- PGP-KID: 0x52D70289
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