Learning modern Linux: A handbook for the cloud native practitioner

Re:Learning modern Linux: A handbook for the cloud native pr... by theamk on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:51PM (#31296846)

That's what sh or bash is for, a least common denominator present on every machine.

Sure, it is not the same as your home machine - but even with the right shell, you customized config files woukd still be missing. So it is easier to get used to defaukt setup on defaut shell when managing many machines.

(This is the reason I had to learn vi back in the day: sure, my machine has lovingly customized emacs.. But that old Sun one needs to debug? Vi only.)

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Re:Learning modern Linux: A handbook for the cloud native pr... by justaj on Sunday May 08, 2022 @05:30AM (#31302514)

I would argue it's sh (Bourne shell, or POSIX shell rather) than Bash, as Bash is not present by default on some notable Linux distros (Alpine Linux, OpenWRT etc.) and especially not present out of the box on many popular *BSD variants.

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Re:Learning modern Linux: A handbook for the cloud native pr... by fragmede on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:27PM (#31299637)

and not even vim, but vi.

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