On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 20:37, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 6/17/20 2:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > > Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I > > get into trouble. > > > > This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could > > dash be made the default shell in Arch? > > > Couldn't you just set it as the default for your user using chsh? > I don't think many people will want to use dash as interactive shell. It's more about running shell scripts with a #!/bin/sh shebang. It is still possible to do that system wide of course, with a symlink in /usr/local/bin . The question whether it makes sense as default /bin/sh on Arch Linux remains valid though. I personally would be positive towards that change. -- Maarten
