Dash

dash is the Debian Almquist shell: Article description::a small, fast, and POSIX compliant . It is well-suited for startup scripts, and is used on Debian (and derivative distributions) as.

As some shell scripts may have "bashisms" in them, dash is not guaranteed to work as a replacement on Gentoo, out-of-the-box.

See the article for some general usage pointers, though dash is not often used in interactive mode.

Configuration
Make dash the default system shell:

Use dash as current shell:

Alternatively, just use :

Garbled display
The output of a shell can, in some conditions, become corrupt. See the article for instructions to help fix this.