Dash is a POSIX compliant shell.
It can be installed as /bin/sh or as the default shell for either
root
or a second user with a userid
of 0. It depends on fewer libraries than the Bash shell and is therefore less likely to be
affected by an upgrade problem or disk failure. Dash is also useful for checking that a script
is completely compatible with POSIX syntax.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/files/dash-0.5.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f6cedb10ae7258adb5ab17a10ae80d51
Download size: 224 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
libedit (command line editor library)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dash
Install Dash by running the following commands:
./configure --bindir=/bin --mandir=/usr/share/man && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
If you would like to make dash the default sh, recreate the /bin/sh
symlink as the root
user:
If you create the symbolic link from dash to sh, you will need to reset the link to bash to build LFS.
ln -svf dash /bin/sh
--bindir=/bin
: This
parameter places the dash binary into the root
filesystem.
--with-libedit
: To compile Dash with libedit support.
Update /etc/shells
to include the
Dash shell by issuing the
following command as the root
user:
cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
/bin/dash
EOF
Last updated on 2013-08-21 09:31:34 -0700