> What I hope comes out of this is that Linux distributions standardize on a bar...

hadoukenio on Sept 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The shockingly obsolete code of bash

> What I hope comes out of this is that Linux distributions standardize on a bare-bones shell for system-level and even application-level scripts, and more powerful shells are used only for interactive sessions.

It's called POSIX, aka ISO/IEC 9945:

  http://www.unix.org/version3/iso_std.html

dasil003 on Sept 28, 2014 [–]

Yes, smart guy. I mean in practice.