bash is fine as an interactive shell but its a bit heavyweight for shell scripts.
dash is a minimal bourne like shell more suited to simple shell scripts and considerablly faster for such uses.
The problem is if you don't make the /bin/sh link point at it then hardly anyone will use it but if you do make the /bin/sh link point at it (like ubunutu did) you will get lots of breakage of software that assumed /bin/sh will always mean bash.
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Thank you for explaining that. I think that I will stick to bash and my advanced bash scripting ability.plugwash wrote:bash is fine as an interactive shell but its a bit heavyweight for shell scripts.
dash is a minimal bourne like shell more suited to simple shell scripts and considerablly faster for such uses.
The problem is if you don't make the /bin/sh link point at it then hardly anyone will use it but if you do make the /bin/sh link point at it (like ubunutu did) you will get lots of breakage of software that assumed /bin/sh will always mean bash.