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dash is a tiny shell that is intended for small media like floppy disks.
"dash" is a POSIX compliant shell that is much smaller than "bash". We take advantage of that by making it the shell on the installation root floppy, where space is at a premium.
It can be usefully installed as /bin/sh (because it executes scripts somewhat faster than "bash"), or as the default shell either of root or ofa second user with a userid of 0 (because it depends on fewer libraries, and is therefore less likely to be affected by an upgrade problem or a disk failure). It is also useful for checking that a script uses only POSIX syntax.
Project information
- Maintainer:
- Registry Administrators
- Driver:
- Not yet selected
- Licence:
- GNU GPL v2
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main series is the current focus of development.
All packages Packages in Distributions
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dash source package in Xenial
Version 0.5.8-2.1ubuntu2 uploaded -
dash source package in Wheezy
Version 0.5.7-3 uploaded -
dash source package in Trusty
Version 0.5.7-4ubuntu1 uploaded -
dash source package in Squeeze
Version 0.5.5.1-7.4 uploaded -
dash source package in Sid
Version 0.5.12-6 uploaded
