bash vs dash

[John Dong]

dash is a minimal shell that is primarily meant to meet POSIX bourne shell
standards (i.e. BSD's /bin/sh). It doesn't support autocompletion or command
history.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Jiafu Gao <jiafu_gao at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find out the feature differenece between bash and dash. The
> internet does not help much. man dash goes to manual page for sh. Is this
> information available at all?
>
> Specifically, I like to know if dash support:
>   1) autocompletion (of command)
>   2) command history
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jiafu
>
>
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