Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Top of my head:

- it works

- it's simple

- they know that bash is in /bin

- maybe it avoids a needless call to env, resulting in better startup time (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978932 for a similar situation with python)



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: