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<p>dash (Debian Almquist shell) is a <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/port">port</a> of <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/ash">ash</a> to <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/Debian">Debian</a>.</p>

<h2 id="Line"> Line editing</h2>

<p>Despite the man page describing <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/line editing">line editing</a> as a feature and including options <code>-V</code> and <code>-E</code> for <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/vi">vi</a> and <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/emacs">emacs</a> command line editors, dash as made available in the Debian repository is not actually compiled with support for line editing as of <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/Trixie">Trixie</a>.</p>

<p>A workaround for this issue is using packages <code>rlwrap</code>, <code>ledit</code> or <code>rlfe</code>, both of which provide wrappers capable of giving line editing capabilities to several CLI utilities, dash included.</p>

<p>In my testing, <code>rlfe</code> made everything bold, whereas <code>rlwrap</code> kept formatting unchanged. <code>rlwrap</code> is <a class="detached" title="" href="/node/actively maintained">actively maintained</a> as of 2026, while <code>ledit</code>'s last version is from'<code>2018</code>. <code>rlfe</code> is part of readline itself, which is also actively maintained.</p>

<h2 id="History"> History</h2>

<p>In <code>dash(1)</code>, the History section states:</p>


<blockquote>
dash is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small
as possible. dash is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of ash (the
Almquist SHell), ported to Linux in early 1997. It was renamed to dash in 2002.
</blockquote>
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