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davewongillies | karma 288 | avg karma 3.39 · 2018-01-06 15:43:01

And to make things interesting Ubuntu uses dash as sh

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

yjftsjthsd-h | karma 28510 | avg karma 2.78 · 2018-01-06 16:44:51+00:00

In fairness, that's just for sh; if for some reason you actually need bash you can just use `#!/usr/bin/env bash`

mjevans | karma 9752 | avg karma 2.24 · 2018-01-06 19:07:50+00:00

If you actually //need// bash ask for it, not sh.

This comes from more armature script authors not being precise enough with requirements, or not targeting the more common and portable spec.

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OJFord | karma 22072 | avg karma 2.2 · 2018-01-07 14:18:55+00:00

`sh` is only supposed to be _a_ POSIX-compliant shell, it's not odd/interesting/confusing that Ubuntu uses dash any more than it is that something else uses bash.

The shebang line #!/bin/sh should only be used for POSIX-compliant scripts; if it needs {bash, dash, python, etc.} it should start #!/usr/bin/env {bash, dash, python, etc.}.

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