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Package: dash (0.5.4-8ubuntu1.1) [security] [essential]

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Gerrit Pape

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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POSIX-compliant shell

The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a lightweight POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash.

It can be usefully installed as /bin/sh (because it executes scripts faster than bash), or as the default shell for the superuser. It depends on fewer libraries than bash, and is therefore less likely to be affected by an upgrade problem or a disk failure. It is also useful for checking the POSIX compliance of scripts.

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.4)
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    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: debianutils (>= 2.15)
    Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 94.6 kB224 kB [list of files]
i386 85.9 kB204 kB [list of files]