How To Install dash on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install dash on Rocky Linux 8. dash is Small and fast POSIX-compliant shell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dash on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dash.

Install dash on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install dash

Install dash on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove dash

dash Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/dash
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/c6e02ff0fd98bd551970499660e7aa3fbe5f5a
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.