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There is no "default" shell. Different distros are free to pick whatever shell they want. The most commonly used as the main shell is Bash, but other shells, including the Korn shell, C shell, Friendly Interactive Shell, or Almquist shell are also available. Many distros also use a variant of the Almquist shell provided by BusyBox in their initial ramdisks before switching to the real root and launching the main shell.

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