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[–] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

/bin/bash won't work on every system for example NixOS some other systems may have bash in /usr/bin or elsewhere

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Binaries are not in /usr/bin or /bin except for /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env. Programs should not assume fixed paths for binaries and instead look for them in $PATH.