On 12/21/21 11:42 AM, John Cowan wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:22 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com
> <mailto:lm@mcvoy.com>> wrote:
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>     I get the historical interest, but in today's world, is there any
>     advantage to ksh over bash?  I get that lots of scripts are run
>     with /bin/sh and it is nice when that is fast, but aren't the cpus
>     fast enough these days that it sort of doesn't matter?
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> Ubuntu chose it as the default shell for sysvinit startup scripts in 2006
> (from which it spread to BSD) precisely because it was much faster than
> bash.  It's also smaller: bash is a memory hog. 

You're talking about dash, I think.

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