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That’s probably a good practice anyway. /bin/sh is guaranteed to exist, but there’s no reason to assume bash is installed at all. If it is installed, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/bin are all reasonable locations.

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Even /bin/sh is not guaranteed to exist, and when it does exist, it is not guranteed to be useful. It is not a location specified by POSIX, and implementations exist that do not place the standard sh utility in /bin. The big one was SunOS/Solaris, where /bin/sh did exist but was the pre-POSIX implementation, and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh existed for when you wanted POSIX sh. Android puts it in /system/bin/sh and not all of them have the compatibility symlink /bin -> /system/bin. There are probably other special cases as well.

POSIX explicitly says "Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh, and should be determined by interrogation of the PATH returned by getconf PATH [...]"

And that’s the way it is in FreeBSD… /bin/sh exists, but it isn’t bash. Instead, bash must be installed by the user, and is thus installed in /usr/bin.

minor nit: /usr/local/bin as it comes from ports

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