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Bash is bloated. I have seen bash executables in the megabytes range. Preinstalled bash is not an argument in favour of using it.



Extracted, this Linux build of Powershell (v7.4.5) 174MB.


Yeah, it's hard to do a direct comparison, because bash needs a bunch of other utilities to be useful and they also take up space. In theory you can pick and choose but woe be to you if you want to use bash without sed, awk, cut, etc.

But it's true that, like, you get help with Powershell but that might not matter on a system where you wouldn't choose to install man pages or something.




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