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Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.
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so just to be clear:
These are all the same thing?
For the most part yes!
There is a difference between
/bin/sh(Bourne Shell) and/bin/bash(Unix Shell), the Bourne shell is still used on more light-weight distro’s like Apache whereas BASH is more feature rich and larger which you use on the more heavier distributions.There is Zsh which is an extension of the Bourne Shell.
Fun fact; Your system may fallback to
/bin/shif it cannot boot properly or is unable to run/bin/bash.