(13-11-2020, 09:03 PM)mattrose Wrote: In debian and all of it's derivatives, except for ubuntu 18 and up, Redhat and all of it's derivatives, and Arch and all of it's derivatives /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash. If it's not 99% it's because there aren't enough linux distros.

I'm too lazy to look it up now but last time I used Debian they were replacing bash with dash.
EDIT: ok, so I am more curious than lazy. Debian uses dash as non-interactive shell and bash as interactive shell.

(13-11-2020, 09:03 PM)mattrose Wrote: even though /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, that doesn't mean that it behaves the same as /bin/bash, from the manpage https://linux.die.net/man/1/bash :

Thanks, I didn't know that.

(13-11-2020, 09:03 PM)mattrose Wrote: Please excuse my formatting, it's my first time replying to a thread like this.

Perfectly fine!