How To Install dash on Fedora 34

dash is Small and fast POSIX-compliant shell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dash on Fedora 34.

What is `dash`

DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks.

We can use yum or dnf to install dash on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dash.

Install dash on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install dash using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dash

Install dash on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install dash using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dash

How To Uninstall dash on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the dash package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dash

dash Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/dash
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/fb94cce948ffe890aaa60685398a829d77c5b8
/usr/share/doc/dash
/usr/share/doc/dash/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dash/ChangeLog
/usr/share/man/man1/dash.1.gz

References

dash website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dash on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.