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croemer 8 hours ago

Inconsistent: claims /bin/sh on Alpine is dash in one paragraph, BusyBox ash in another.

Smells a lot of AI writing.

▲ gaigalas 8 hours ago | parent [-]

They are the same, kinda! ash and dash are from the Almquist family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell

It's just poetic license.

▲ croemer 8 hours ago | parent [-]

They are not the same. For example, `[[` apparently works on Alpine's ash but not on Debian's dash. BusyBox ash has some bash compatibility options enabled in Alpine.

It's ironic that a post about shell differences glosses over this. Maybe not surprising that slop is sloppy.

	▲	gaigalas 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The post is not about shell differences, there's too many of them. It's about portability. I want users to test instead of rote memorizing. And I'm giving them tools: `docker run --rm alganet/shell-versions:all -c 'PATH=; [[ 1 == 1 ]] \|\| echo fail'` Don't trust any blogger, use science.