Dash

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#7 of 27

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Score

5.6

The facts below are what the maker publishes about Dash, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.

Plans and prices

From Dash's own pricing page, checked 14 Nov 2026.

Plan	Price	What it gives you
Debian dash package	Free	Package for Debian stable (trixie) · package version 0.5.12-12 · No charge stated

Each one read from Dash's own pages, with the date it was checked.

Architectures: The stable package is available for amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, and s390x.checked 14 Nov 2026
Dependencies: The page says dash has fewer library dependencies, which it associates with greater robustness against software or hardware failures.checked 14 Nov 2026
Distribution: The package page identifies this release as Debian trixie (stable).checked 14 Nov 2026
Downloads: The page links to source-package downloads and architecture-specific binary packages.checked 14 Nov 2026
Implementation: Debian classifies dash as implemented in C and as a command shell utility.checked 14 Nov 2026
Maintainers: The Debian package maintainers listed are Andrej Shadura and Gerrit Pape.checked 14 Nov 2026
Package dependencies: The listed package dependencies include GNU C Library and debianutils.checked 14 Nov 2026
Performance: The package page says dash executes scripts faster than bash.checked 14 Nov 2026
Product: Dash is the Debian Almquist Shell, a POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash.checked 14 Nov 2026
Purpose: Debian uses dash as its default system shell.checked 14 Nov 2026
Upstream homepage: Debian lists gondor.apana.org.au as the dash homepage.checked 14 Nov 2026