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1. Bash is definitely not the default OS shell for "all OSs" except Windows. Most Android devices, most embedded devices running a variation of Linux, a lot of Unix systems and increasingly more desktop Linux systems don't run bash as a default.

2. Pretty much every shell invokes a myriad of native binaries. That's kind of what a shell does. cmd.exe does that just as easy as bash does.

Don't get me wrong, bash is nice, but the opening part of this presentation is bullshit. Also, what the fuck happened to O'Reilly?

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