walt wrote: > On 09/20/2009 05:40 PM, Dale wrote: >> walt wrote: >>> In linux bash is the default shell (even sh is a symlink to bash) >>> but in >>> other OS's other default shells prevail. > > Okay, okay, Alan, you're right, I have not tried every linux distro > out there, > but when I was a linux noob I tried every one I could find. Back then > that was > Debian, SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake (since morphed into something else), > and very > recently Ubuntu, just to see what all the fuss was about. (I'm > sticking with > gentoo.) > > All of those use(d) bash as the default shell, but may have switched > while I > wasn't looking. Bash *appears* to be the official shell of GNU, as > its home > page is hosted there: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ > > BTW, all of the above distros including gentoo are officially > un-endorsed by > GNU: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/common-distros.html Actually, /bin/bash is a symlink -> /bin/dash on Ubuntu so dash (Debian ash) is the default shell on Ubuntu (and either dash or ash is on Debian). I found that out the hard way when I was scripting and some bash stuff wouldn't work properly.
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