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

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

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

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for app-shells/dash Debian Almquist Shell

`libedit`	Use the libedit library (replacement for readline)
`static`	!!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask app-shells/dash

Configuration

See the article on on shell configuration for more info.

Troubleshooting

Garbled display

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

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