Dash as default shell

Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net
Thu Oct 2 13:58:34 UTC 2014


Once upon a time, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> said:
> Like put in Packing Guidelines, that authors and maintainers of non-interactive shell scripts should use
>   #!/usr/bin/dash
> rather then
>   #!/bin/sh  or
>   #!/usr/bin/bash

No, /bin/sh is the standard-defined definitive place for the
POSIX-compliant scripting shell on Unix-like systems.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>


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