Does Alpine Linux have bash?

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#1

Hi, does Alpine Linux have bash shell installed by default? I want to try it out on my Raspberry PI but I have many bash script and they don’t work with /bin/sh or /bin/dash. Hence, asking. Please confirm it.

#2

No, Alpine Linux comes with a busybox. The default shell in BusyBox is ash. However, you can install bash or any other shell on Alpine Linux using the apk command. See:

You can verify this using the ls command:

ls -l /bin/sh
ls -l /bin/ash

Both pointing to the /bin/busybox:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            12 Sep 23  2020 /bin/ash -> /bin/busybox
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            12 Sep 23  2020 /bin/ash -> /bin/busybox
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