PowerShell vs. Unix shells

Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by mhurron on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:50PM (#4240564)

Depends on your target. Bash is the LSB shell. If your scripts are only targeting Linux, then you should be able to safely assume bash is there. On Linux, by default, there isn't even a real Bourne shell anyway; it's a symlink to bash.

If you're writing cross-platform then yes, sh would be a better target, but a lot of environments are going to be Linux only.

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Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by georgemcbay on Friday July 13, 2012 @02:31PM (#4241147)

"On Linux, by default, there isn't even a real Bourne shell anyway; it's a symlink to bash."

For a lot of Linux users (Debian/Ubuntu) /bin/sh is a symlink to dash.

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Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by eru on Friday July 13, 2012 @10:54PM (#4242945)

Doesn't Ubuntu use dash by now?

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