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As I understand, the POSIX standard specifies required features for the Bourne shell, at /bin/sh, and most Linux distributions depend upon shell scripts written to use the Bourne shell. BASH is at base an enhanced version of the Bourne shell, and /bin/sh is actually a link to /bin/bash, that when executed runs with just the Bourne shell features.

bgvaughan
– bgvaughan

2012-01-12 18:18:05 +00:00
Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 18:18
@bgvaughan Some distributions ship bash as /bin/sh, others ship ash. For example Ubuntu's /bin/sh has been dash (the fork of ash maintained by Debian) for a while. Bash has more features, ash is smaller and faster. Both are POSIX compliant (or at least compliant enough in practice).

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2012-01-12 18:54:05 +00:00
Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 18:54

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