Your Bash Prompt Needs This

Re:Your Bash Prompt Needs This by kree10 on Friday April 27, 2012 @04:36PM (#3900927)

So you could say bash is the Internet Explorer of shells. It's the default, it's what most people use, and it's good enough.

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Re:Your Bash Prompt Needs This by maratd on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:53PM (#3901174)

No, I would not say that.

Internet Explorer is the default on Windows because Microsoft makes it, not because it's the best option for a default.

Bash is the default because it's the best shell to be used as a default. Nobody is twisting the arm of any distribution, but they set it as the default anyway. There's a reason for that.

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Re:Your Bash Prompt Needs This by kree10 on Saturday April 28, 2012 @07:18AM (#3902684)

I think that reason is mostly inertia.

Also, because it's GNU. Just as IE is the Microsoft browser, bash is the GNU shell, and most Linux distributions are built around GNU userland.

But that's just Linux. The BSDs don't see bash as the best default, where it tends to only be available as an optional package.

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Re:Your Bash Prompt Needs This by grogs on Friday April 27, 2012 @10:28PM (#3901830)

Because it was at some point when the decision was made, for a few distributions.

How often is this decision re-evaluated?

...personally I just hit Ctrl+C again to reset my prompt.

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