# Bash

Standing (still-up). Founded 1989-06-08.
Site: [gnu.org/software/bash](https://gnu.org/software/bash)

Brian Fox, 1989, GNU. Still the glue.

## Why it lasted
- It is the default shell on a billion machines even when it is not your login shell.
- Every install script is a bash script pretending to be portable.

## Near deaths
- zsh became the macOS default. Bash stayed the script. That split saved it.
- Fish and oil and nushell. Lovely. CI still says #!/usr/bin/env bash.

## What would finish it
- A POSIX shell that is default everywhere and is not bash. Dash got close in Debian. Scripts still say bash.

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