alt Hacker NewsThey are the same, kinda! ash and dash are from the Almquist family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell
It's just poetic license.
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.
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.