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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:51:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: proposing a new package: dash (shell)
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>
To: Akakima <akakima33 AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Akakima wrote:
> I have read somewhere that dash becamed recently the official shell of
> Ubuntu.

The standard /bin/sh, at any rate:

$ lsb_release -d
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-07-30 05:36 /bin/sh -> dash*

User accounts are still created with bash as the login shell by default.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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