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kree10 · 2012-04-27 15:36:14

So you could say bash is the Internet Explorer of shells. It's the default, it's what most people use, and it's good enough.

dec0dedab0de | karma 7735 | avg karma 3.27 · | 2019-09-20 01:40:49

Bash is primarily a shell, it even has the word shell in its full name.

kitd | karma 4707 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2024-05-22 10:28:38

Bash is available by default on a huge range of OSes.

wogong | karma 7 | avg karma 0.58 · | 2013-05-11 08:45:05

yes, bash is great except it's not default sh.

deadbunny | karma 3746 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2021-02-18 11:58:41+00:00

And the default shell on all my machines is bash ;)

jwilk | karma 8094 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2018-03-01 20:42:43

I'm pretty sure OP uses OS X (or whatever it's called these days), which has bash as the default shell.

peatmoss | karma 6470 | avg karma 3.69 · | 2016-04-21 14:30:52

You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but I'm old enough to remember not being able to take bash for granted. The default shell on some modern systems (OpenBSD for example) comes to mind as well. I feel this battle has mostly been lost, however.

umanwizard | karma 14757 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2019-07-09 05:33:31+00:00

Would you say “I’m using Chrome and Visual Studio” or “I’m using a Windows workflow and tools” or “I’m using explorer.exe” ?

The first two make much more sense to me than the third.

(As an aside, it’s not true that Bash is “the Unix shell” and it is in fact not the default on several Unix-like systems. But in fairness to your point, it is the default on most GNU/Linux distros).

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nkuttler | karma 1260 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2013-08-17 23:41:54+00:00

Yeah, I'm a bash user.

saagarjha | karma 56017 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2021-01-27 06:38:14+00:00

> GNU bash is the most popular shell implementation in the world. It was first released in 1989, and implements the POSIX standard plus many extensions. It's the default shell on most Linux distributions, runs on BSD Unix variants, used to ship on Mac OS X, and runs on Windows.

Note that macOS still ships bash.

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fergie | karma 3374 | avg karma 4.9 · | 2018-11-19 08:55:39

I’m surprised that nobody is mentioning plain old Bash. The builtins are pretty powerful, and in many ways Bash is the “standard” cli.

beza1e1 | karma 1376 | avg karma 3.7 · | 2010-09-29 11:55:13

Depends on the shell one uses, i think. On the other hand, who doesn't use bash these days.

pyuser583 | karma 4441 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2022-02-28 10:53:50

Bash.

nunez | karma 5603 | avg karma 1.43 · | 2018-05-14 23:25:14+00:00

Bash is available on almost every system. The portability is desirable sometimes.

jordanpg | karma 2162 | avg karma 3.05 · | 2015-05-18 22:29:04+00:00

I'll switch to one of these new-fangled shells if I ever master bash.

In any case, bash -- in one of its many forms, colors, and sizes -- is what I usually find myself in front of.

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rubicks | karma 292 | avg karma 1.86 · | 2022-06-21 21:11:29

Obligatory pedantry: Bash is A shell. It's definitely not "The Shell".

squigs25 | karma 658 | avg karma 3.89 · | 2014-02-04 14:49:56

Exactly - the beauty of bash is that it's accessible

dnautics | karma 17907 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2021-01-03 12:23:20

Bash?

scns | karma 2383 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2018-01-20 13:45:16+00:00

Bash?

RexM | karma 585 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2023-01-08 14:24:06

Bash?