/bin/sh
, the Bourne shell created in 1977, used to be the default shell for Unix systems.
Nowadays this file still exists but mostly just as a symbolic link to the default POSIX-compatible shell installed on the system:
- on RHEL/CentOS it points to
/bin/bash
, the Bourne Again shell - on Ubuntu Linux it points to
/bin/dash
, the Debian Almquist shell - on Debian it points to
/bin/dash
(6.0 and later; older Debian releases had it point to/bin/bash
)
Which made me curious: Is there a Unix system, or Linux distro, that still provides a binary for /bin/sh
?