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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by ilyt on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:07AM (#33356900)
Do you even ran your code in place where bash wasn't available? I held thought like you... 10 years ago but that really doesn't happen and if it does, rest of it probably won't work either...
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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by jph on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:23PM (#33359954)
Yes. Alpine ash shell (the default),macOS zsh shell (the default), and Oracle Solaris sh shell (the default). The systems are enterprise regulated, so a typical user cannot easily install a different shell. POSIX works great.
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