default shell in Ubuntu

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, vsrk sarma <vsrksiva at gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all, pardon me for raising fundamental query.
> I like now about default shell available in terminal mode.
> It seems it is dash and NOT bash, as /usr/bin/sh links to /usr/bin/dash.
> Is my premise correct?
> If so in what way dash differs from bash?
> Is any web link available to documentation on features and use of dash?
>

I have found this wierd too.
Although I did not find any discernible difference during normal user
operations, (looks like dash reads the .bashrc file too ;-)),
I got into some issues when compiling a source code.
Unlinking /bin/sh and linking it to /bin/bash solved the problem for me.

Thanks,
Raseel
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