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Re:A surprise with how ' ' handles its program argument in p... by latexr on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:53AM (#45990483)
> /bin is the "standard" location for bash on a subset of Linux distributions and basically no other Unix...

You’re forgetting macOS. It has been using /bin/bash forever.

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Re:A surprise with how ' ' handles its program argument in p... by rottingchris on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:10AM (#45993383)
Keep in mind that the bash you get on MacOS is bash 3.2 released in 2006 so relying on it for portability might not be a good idea.
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