How should we tag Dash (the shell)

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I went to ask a question about Dash (/bin/sh) in Ubuntu to find that "dash" is being used to describe problems with Unity's Dash interface.

As dash is the default shell for scripting, many of these could probably be tagged shell-scripting. — Stefano Palazzo, Jan 24, 2012 at 17:45
I'm not a power user and sometimes this site makes me feel like a new-born noob, but my guess is 50 to 60% of the users might understand that, but for users like me we would never put Dash with shell-scripting. I guess that's why people edit tags. — lqlarry, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:09
Actually, there's no such thing as a default shell for shell scripting. It just depends on the shebang line. In my case, my default is: #!/bin/bash. — Scott Severance, Jan 31, 2012 at 23:16

Scott Severance · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-31 23:15:51Z

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Why not dash-shell? That seems to me to be rather destriptive without being over-generic (shell-scripting).

answered Jan 31, 2012 at 23:15

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