[svlug] Location of bash on different Linuxes

Ray Olszewski ray at comarre.com
Thu Aug 17 18:57:02 PDT 2000


At 11:54 AM 8/17/00 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
>
>Can bash be reliably found in /bin/bash in all Linux distributions?
>Are there any Linux distributions where bash cannot be found in
>/bin/bash?
>
><<I need to write some mildly complex distribution agnostic shell
>scripts and I'd rather not have to assume a straight (unfeatured)
>Bourne shell ala /bin/sh>>

Any number of small Linux distributions (Linux Router Project comes
immediately to mind) use ash rather than bash. So whether the answer is YES
or NO depends on your cutoff value for defining something as a "Linux
distribution".

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