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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•11 months agoWhy is always about bash? POSIX shell scripts run everywhere.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoBASH has some useful features and I’ve literally never had an environment with bash unavailable (even if a package is needed, so what).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•11 months agoMacOS ships only 3.something version, which has some compatibility issues with Bash 4+.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoGranted, it’s a kind of niche use case but in the embedded world there’s usually size constraints which prevents a full blown bash installation. However, things are better now than 20 years ago. Flash is cheap.
Why is always about bash? POSIX shell scripts run everywhere.
BASH has some useful features and I’ve literally never had an environment with bash unavailable (even if a package is needed, so what).
MacOS ships only 3.something version, which has some compatibility issues with Bash 4+.
brew install bash
Granted, it’s a kind of niche use case but in the embedded world there’s usually size constraints which prevents a full blown bash installation.
However, things are better now than 20 years ago. Flash is cheap.