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Dec 27, 2015 at 22:11	history	rollback	user79743		Rollback to Revision 4
Dec 23, 2015 at 22:54	history	edited	user79743	CC BY-SA 3.0	Greatly expanded.
Dec 23, 2015 at 11:31	comment	added	Jan Hudec		@RuiFRibeiro, nothing is statically linked in Debian. Dash is more limited, but it is limited mainly in interactive features (no completion and such) so that it is faster for scripts.
Dec 23, 2015 at 4:37	history	edited	muru	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 3 characters in body
Dec 22, 2015 at 18:30	comment	added	Charles Duffy		@RobertL, many of the facilities added in ksh and adopted by bash exist because they substantially ease the process of writing robust and correct scripts. Without the various additions allowing indirect assignment and evaluation to be performed safely, for instance, one can find oneself using `eval`, with attendant security exposure; similarly, without built-in regex support, one can need to use external commands (at a heavy performance penalty) for matching even within a single line, etc.
Dec 22, 2015 at 16:33	history	edited	user79743	CC BY-SA 3.0	Some rewording.
Dec 22, 2015 at 16:24	comment	added	user79743		A more limited set of available tools of a simpler shell makes writing code for it more difficult (please avoid any fanatic war on this). That is why some users like zsh, which has even more tools available than bash. I like Bash more as is a balance between both extremes.
Dec 22, 2015 at 16:18	history	edited	user79743	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 5 characters in body
Dec 22, 2015 at 15:19	history	answered	user79743	CC BY-SA 3.0