On 12 Dec 2011, at 10:42, Rory Browne wrote:
> Bash would be the default interactive shell on Linux these days, but as of late Ubuntu ( and maybe Debian? ), have switched to dash, because its lighter and more memory efficient.
The switch to dash is mostly for start scripts and so on - I don't think it's quite as full featured as an interactive shell as is bash, or zsh. Of course, this is show it gets to have a smaller memory footprint.
Niall
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