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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is always about bash? POSIX shell scripts run everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BASH has some useful features and I’ve literally never had an environment with bash unavailable (even if a package is needed, so what).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MacOS ships only 3.something version, which has some compatibility issues with Bash 4+.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

brew install bash

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.