Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tuesday 27 November 2012 12:02:34 Jon Dowland wrote: >> For modern Debian installations it's not bash either. Switching /bin/sh >> to dash by default was done principally to make boot times quicker (dash >> is smaller and faster to load than bash). > > Thanks for the information, Jon. I hadn't realised that! I've merrily > carried on using "bash". :-/ >
One of the reasons dash is smaller is that it simply has fewer features than bash. I didn't bother to lookup the difference, but IIRC dash aims for strict POSIX compliance and not much else. If you like the extra features you get with bash as your login shell, go ahead and continue using it. It does not really matter what you use for your personal scripts and as your login shell. If hundreds of scripts are being run at boot time, it makes a difference that dash is quicker to start. -- regards, kushal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b4e596.aa54420a.2c7e.4...@mx.google.com
