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Bash is definitely seen as the "Linux shell", but most users of non-Linux Unixes and Unix-likes don't use Bash. macOS, for instance, now uses Zsh out of the box (although most Bash one-liners still run unmodified in Zsh).

But Linux is the majority of the Unix-like market, so it (and therefore Bash) dominates.



macOS just recently switched to zsh as the default and doesn't change the shell for existing users so I imagine it is likely the majority of macOS users are still using bash.


True, although it gives you a pretty prominent notice that Zsh is now the preferred shell when you start Terminal for the first time after updating to Catalina.




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