• mieum@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I believe the original Almquist shell is used on FreeBSD. I know on Debian dash is the sh implementation (afterall it is Debian Almquist Shell), but the default login shell for the root user is bash apparently.

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      3 years ago

      /bin/sh historically used to be an actual shell(the Bourne shell*), but now by default it points to one set by the distro’s devs. Almquist shell was an alternative developed with a BSD license and i guess its still used