What Shell Does Alpine Linux Use?
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Does Alpine use BusyBox?

Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution based on musl and BusyBox, designed for security, simplicity, and resource efficiency. It uses OpenRC for its init system and compiles all user-space binaries as position-independent executables with stack-smashing protection.

Does Alpine use bash or sh?

Alpine Linux comes with BusyBox. It is described as “The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux.” BusyBox combines tiny versions of many standard UNIX utilities into a single small executable, including /bin/sh. By default, bash is not included with BusyBox and Alpine Linux.

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