[sf-lug] glorious dash :-)

Sujit K M kmsujit at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 20:51:06 PDT 2016


On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Michael Paoli
<Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Yes, dash (Debian Almquist shell) is rather glorious. :-)
>
> As I seem to recall it earlier described as a "minimally compliant POSIX
> shell".  Well, it may be a slight bit more/bigger than that, but not by
> much, and generally lacks most all the bloat (and bugs!) of bash.

Found out something interesting to give a gist on why dash is useful,
efficiency(faster boots), POSIX
compliance in Debian.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

Michael,

I would suggest you change the BASH vs DASH to SH vs DASH.

Also, Usability reasons https://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Bash_vs_dash.




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