Re:The Bash Hackers Wiki
by tannhaeuser on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:41AM
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An even more important point since the two mainstream desktop Unixen (Mac OS and Ubuntu) ship with zsh and dash, resp., by default.
dash is shipped as a replacement for the Bourne shell, not bash. Thus Ubuntu does also ship bash too.
Alpine doesn't have bash installed. It alsonpretty common not to have bash as part of the base image on non-Linux systems too. You've already mentioned macOS but the same is true for many of the BSDs.
Re:The Bash Hackers Wiki
by wodenokoto on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:46AM
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I think bash has become the new name for "shell", in the same way kleenex and hoover became names for product categories, rather than brands.
It seems to me like sometime in the last 10-15 years, what we used to call "shell scripting" became "bash" in popular discourse. I myself learned to write shell scripts in times and places where bash was the most popular default, but I never thought of it as writing intentional bashisms, but a set of skills applicable to multiple possible implementations, so I find that shift in jargon a little disappointing or incorrect.