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		ufo on May 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Bourne shell lets you set variables in if expr... To be more precise, dash replaced /bin/sh. Ubuntu still includes bash in the default installation, IIRC.

throw0101a on May 15, 2021 [–]

As does Debian.

There was a lot of gnashing of teeth when we upgraded to Debian 6 and people's (alleged) "/bin/sh" scripts broke. Most folks elected to simply change things to "/bin/bash".

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