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		juliangregorian on May 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fish shell Debian uses dash actually, not bash. I rather prefer it that way since dash is strictly POSIX compliant. Takes some of the tediousness out of creating portable shell scripts.

baghira on May 18, 2015 | [–]

/bin/sh on debian is dash, but the default interactive shell is still bash (sorry for nitpicking).

thristian on May 18, 2015 | [–]

Debian uses dash as /bin/sh, but newly-created accounts default to /bin/bash as their login shell.

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