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Re:My Faster Bash Startup (2020) by teddyh on Saturday October 30, 2021 @04:23PM (#29052013)
> Debian displaced bash as root's default

Um, no? Debian changed what /bin/sh is, which is what many shell scripts use, especially those startup scripts used by sysvinit. The shell of the root user remains, AFAIK, /bin/bash.

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Re:My Faster Bash Startup (2020) by bbarnett on Saturday October 30, 2021 @06:37PM (#29052841)
Indeed. Bash was used for sh emulation before, the reason given for the change to dash was that sh emulation was more correct with it.

(I think it allowed bashisms even when called as sh)

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