Timeline for Are bash/shell scripting questions on topic?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Nov 19, 2017 at 7:07 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan |
@fkraiem The point of migration to Dash was to make /bin/sh dash (as it now is), not that users and administrators would cease scripting in Bash. Further, the actual practice of the vast majority of Ubuntu users is to have /bin/bash as their initial login shell (usually configured in /etc/passwd), which also happens by default when a new account is created. Removing bash would prevent most human users of most Ubuntu systems from logging in on a virtual console or via SSH. But that understates the situation: bash has required priority so anything is free to assume it is present.
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| Nov 19, 2017 at 6:59 | comment | added | fkraiem | Wasn't it the whole point of the "migration" to Dash to make Bash only used as an interactive shell? If that is the case, then any user can replace it with another shell, as many do, and Bash is merely the default (not quite the same thing as being "crucial"). | |
| Nov 19, 2017 at 6:51 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan |
@fkraiem (a) Please consider that bash has required priority. If you don't know what that means, run apt show bash or apt -s remove bash (the -s reduces the risk of harm to your system as it only simulates the removal of this essential package). It's odd--and self-defeating--to cite the bash package in defense of the idea Bash isn't a critically important part of Ubuntu, as the bash package is officially a critically important part of Ubuntu. (b) Please consider that the importance of software is primarily the effect of how it's used in real life. Bash is very heavily used.
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| Nov 19, 2017 at 6:24 | comment | added | fkraiem |
"Bash is a critically important part of Ubuntu" Is not. On my 17.10 system the only package that depends on bash is bash-completion.
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 17, 2015 at 20:15 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Given that the "related questions" sidebar only works on the local site, isn't that a reason to migrate questions to sites where they fit best? | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 20:26 | history | edited | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed small spelling mistake that I think had particular potential to be confusing
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| Apr 9, 2015 at 18:04 | history | answered | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |