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were to change the default shell to something other than busybox ash, what should it be?

zsh
74.7%
oksh / mksh
9.4%
freebsd sh
15.9%

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has zsh improved its sh emulation? i vaguely remember it doing some very odd things, especially when sourcing other files

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It's the scripts with lots of bash features which don't really work properly in zsh. It has a bash emulation mode but it's not very good because bash is too complicated and quirky. They're missing too much stuff and some just doesn't behave in a proper bug-for-bug compatible way.

2:10 AM · Feb 27, 2022Twitter Web App

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I don't really understand the point of the bash emulation mode. It's fairly dangerous to use it since many shell scripts can go horribly wrong from some minor issue due to the terrible error handling, etc. I don't think it has issues with POSIX compliant bourne shell though.